Government talks to doctors

[NewsWhore]

After a series of strikes by the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) over the last six months, with hospitals all but shut down across the country, the government has set up a special commission to negotiate with the doctors and sort things out. The dialogue begins today with the government's economic team, headed by Presidential Minister Luis Manuel Bonetti as the chairman, and Minister of Hacienda Vicente Bengoa, sitting down for the first time with the doctors, who will be represented by Waldo Ariel Suero, Senen Caba and special representative Oscar Lopez Camacho. The doctors are arguing for increased salaries and the elimination of the quotas that are required from patients at public hospitals. Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez has been left out of the talks. The minister supports a system that would impede the physicians from holding multiple jobs in the same work schedule, and would pay doctors according to productivity. Thus wage increases would not be over the board, as sought by the union, but to those putting in the hours.

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