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NewsWhore
03-11-2009, 06:30 PM
The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) is going back to its old tricks. After it was announced that the Senate had rejected a pay raise, the CMD announced a 24-hour work stoppage beginning on Thursday. This has been the main strategy used by the public hospital doctors in their campaign for the raise. Nonetheless, despite a series of strikes last year, the CMD has not accomplished its purpose. Doctors' leader Waldo Ariel Suero said that the CMD has been shown a lack of respect by legislators who have not been able to pass a bill with the funds for their raise. "There was never the will on the part of the government to get things done, they tricked us, but the confrontation starts now," said Suero.

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