The Solomon Islands' government has agreed to revise its scheme of services for doctors after medical practitioners threatened a nation-wide strike.
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The protest action was withdrawn by the Solomon Islands Medical Association on December 27 after weeks of negotiations and multiple rejections of government offers for a revised scheme.
Officials from the Ministry of Public Service said a memorandum of agreement, being drafted this week for representatives of the medical association and government to sign off, would be the basis for implementing the new scheme.
In a release announcing the withdrawal of the strike action, the medical association executive thanked doctors around the country for their cooperation and welcomed the government's accommodation of doctors' concerns.