Doctors strike - again

[NewsWhore]

Yet again public hospital doctors in the southern provinces of the DR are going on strike. Although the strikes have received little attention from the government, doctors are using the action to exert pressure as part of an ongoing fight to obtain a wage increase and other benefits. The announcement came from Waldo Ariel Suero, president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and CMD VP Eusebio Rivera Almodovar. This strike will be the seventh by the CMD and its members since February. Doctors are demanding, among other things, a salary of RD$58,000 per month, compared to their current wage of around RD$25,000 per month. The Ministry of Public Health acknowledges the need for a wage increase, but wants to peg this to productivity, which has not been acceptable to the CMD leaders.

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