NewsWhore
08-14-2008, 03:50 PM
Once again the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has called for a 24-hour work stoppage at public hospitals to pressure the government to accept their demands. The strike will be held today, and a protest will be held on 16 August, the day President Leonel Fernandez is sworn in for his third term. The CMD has held eight strikes since February, garnering little response from the government. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas and the CMD under president Waldo Ariel Suero have not been able to agree on the wage issue. Bautista wants to peg physician wages to productivity, and this has met with opposition from Suero who wants to keep the present working conditions that enable physicians to hold more than one job at the same time.
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