Suero vs government

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Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero is protesting the forceful removal of himself and other medics that camped out on the second floor of the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. At 2am on Thursday, a Police Swat group carried them outside of the ministry. Suero accuses the government of brutality. Suero says he was injured in the altercation and described being carried out of the ministry headquarters by his shirt and neck, while military and police officers punched him. He added, "they turned the lights out at 8pm and even cut off our access to water. They treated me like a criminal, they even handcuffed me." Suero and the leaders representing CMD medics that are battling for an overall wage increase for public hospital doctors took over the ministry hallway in a new move given that their tactic of ordering doctors to strike at public hospitals have not produced results. The Ministry of Public Health's stand is that raises should only be awarded for productivity.
But if Suero was looking for sympathy he wasn't getting any, at least not from National Police Chief General Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin. Guzman defended the action taken against the doctors, saying that although the police had used force, their actions weren't violent. Guzman stated that the police procedures had been clean. Health Minister Bautista Rojas said that the increased police presence was appropriate to prevent further interruption of work activities at the Ministry. Journalists covered the expulsion and photos are shown in the press today.

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