NewsWhore
06-20-2008, 11:00 PM
Yesterday, members of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) held a protest rally outside the Presidential Palace, but the government didn't even send out an envoy to meet with the doctors. The rally ended without incident shortly after midday. Hoy writes that the Senate is willing to intervene to try to work out a solution. One option is to increase the tax on firearms, which would create the needed revenue to pay for salary increases. Public hospital doctors have been fighting for a RD$30,000 wage increase since February, but their demands have fallen on deaf ears and the series of strikes has done nothing to further their cause. Hoy writes that next week the CMD will formally file charges against Minister of Health Bautista Rojas Gomez for violating the Doctors' Resources Law.
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