NewsWhore
06-11-2008, 01:40 PM
The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has announced the continuation of its strike action in pursuit of higher salaries and an elimination of fees for patients in public hospitals. Their next work stoppage will affect the north of the country and will last for 24 hours. CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero announced the strike at a press conference yesterday. This will be the sixth strike so far this year, but, as yet, the Ministry of Public Health has not given any signs that it is willing to negotiate with the CMD or its representatives. The government is working on the creation of a new Public Hospital Network aimed at merging public hospitals and Social Security hospitals, assigning physicians to a single hospital, and increasing their working hours from 4 to 6 hours a day, while at the same time increasing wages and adding productivity incentives. This is opposed by the CMD, which wants to maintain the status quo. At present, many public hospital doctors keep several government jobs with the same schedule.
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