should doctors know how to fight for their rights without jeorpadising health of the citizen?

More that a week now, medical doctors in Tanzania are in unresolved conflict with the government. The saga started when the government reallocated intern doctors working at Muhimbili national hospital ( the biggest hospital in the country) to other other hospitals in the country . This reallocation was seen innappropriate as it was taken as a punishment after the interns boycotted in order that they can be paid their monthly allowances by the Minstry of Health and Social welfare. Since then medical doctors ( genealists and specialists) have joined the intern doctors to fight against this seemingly humiliation to the afflicted inten doctors who were demanding for their basic rights as it was part of their contract that they must be paid monthly. The Medical association of Tanzania, has taken a lead to mobilise doctors across the country to discuss this issue and other doctors welfares that have been neglected by  the current government. Different govenment officials including the minster of health have given the government stand on this issue but this has not satisfied the medics and are still  on a go-slow in order that their demands are met.Among other things,they are demanding  that the government should stop reallocating the intern doctors and  meet other doctors welfare such as night call allowances . Pointing to the recent increase of the sitting allowances given to the Members of parliament that has increased from Tsh 70,000 ($44) to 200,000Tshs ($ 126) , medics have questioned the government on why their call allowance have not been increased since early ninetees where they have been paid 10,000 ($6.3)Ths per night call?
While this saga is ongoing, there are posibilities of mobilising all the doctors in the country to strike offering medical services untill their demands are met. This will cost the government and the citizens at lage. Critics are asking why has the matter been allowed to deteriorate to this stage? Is it the medical professionals, the government, the media and by extension the society at large?. Commenting in one of the social media, one senior citizen asked that should the doctors know how to fight for their rights without jeopardising health of the citizens? These questions seems to be difficult but each group has a part to play!