NewsWhore
10-23-2008, 04:10 PM
After many months of strife and an extended impasse with the Executive Branch and the Ministry of Public Health, the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) was able to work out an agreement with the Congress leadership yesterday. The agreement includes an increase in doctors' salaries over the next two years. The agreement announced by the Congress leadership and the CMD president is still subject to approval by President Leonel Fernandez. The legislative commission that took part in the discussions will report directly to the President. Congress and the CMD reached a preliminary agreement that addresses the demand for a salary increase in a two-stage process: the first will be included in the 2009 budget and the second in the 2010 budget. According to Hoy newspaper, the agreement was confirmed by CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero, and Senate and Chamber of Deputies leaders Reinaldo Pared Perez and Julio Cesar Valentin. Pared Perez told reporters that the commission would meet with the President tomorrow to discuss the preliminary agreement and would report back to the CMD at a meeting next Wednesday.
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