CMD hunger strike

[NewsWhore]

Eight members of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) administrative board staged a hunger strike yesterday on the second floor hallway of the Ministry of Public Health. The CMD has spent months battling the government that instead wants to peg public hospital doctor wages to productivity and not give an overall wage increase. CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero was joined by the Dominican Institute of Social Security medical association president Jesus Maria Guerrero and other CMD leaders. Hoy reports that Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas did not meet with the CMD reps and instead promptly left the premises. He did eventually return, but never left his office. Hoy also reports that police were dispatched to the headquarters. At 2am the six remaining CMD reps were forcibly removed. Mediator Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado met with the doctors for over two hours, to no avail. Suero threatened a weeklong doctors' strike at public hospitals if demands were not met.

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