NewsWhore
06-06-2008, 03:00 PM
Yesterday's doctors' strike featured emotional confrontations between doctors, public officials and patients who just wanted treatment. In San Cristobal and Bani members of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and patients got into a war of words as patients pleaded for basic assistance. Hoy reports that CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero and Public Health Ministry regional director Jose Daniel Martinez Garces were at the Juan Pablo Pina hospital in San Cristobal and were witnessed arguing in the hospital's pediatrics section. Reports indicate that the hospitals were filled with patients yesterday, while doctors were nowhere to be found. One woman is quoted as saying, " I don't care who takes care of my child. I just don't want her to die". This was the seventh strike the CMD has held since February. Doctors are pushing for wage increases, while the Ministry of Public Health is insisting that pay needs to be pegged to productivity.
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