Nurses extend strike

[NewsWhore]

Members of the UNASED and UNASE nurses unions have announced they will extend their strike for an extra 24 hours. Nurses are asking for higher wages and other concessions. Listin Diario reports that nurses at the Robert Reid Cabral, Maternidad Nuestra Senora de La Altagracia and Francisco Moscoso Puello hospitals followed through with the strike, although they did respond to emergency situations. Nurses say that Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas has not listened to their demands, adding that they are willing to take their fight to Congress. Nurses were not included in last month's pay agreement between doctors and the government, even though nurses continually supported the doctor's struggle for higher wages.

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