NewsWhore
07-30-2009, 03:10 PM
Doctors, nurses and other public health sector professionals gave massive support to the first day of the three-day strike. This was most noticeable in the consultation rooms and waiting rooms at the main public health facilities and the Dominican Social Security Institute that were nearly deserted yesterday.
As is the custom when there are labor stoppages, directors and other administrative medical staff in the hospitals and military personnel provided service to patients who went to the health facilities.
Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero visited several hospitals in the National District and the province of Santo Domingo in order to check on the progress of the strike. Afterwards, he went to the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital with nurses' representative Minerva Marmolejos. Suero said that the strike would continue today and that tomorrow, Friday, he would report on the possibility of extending the strike into the coming week.
Still smarting from the aggressive way in which he and a group of colleagues were evicted from their occupation of the Ministry of Labor building, Suero said that President Leonel Fernandez has a point in his favor since he is the first Dominican leader to order the arrest and jailing (together with common criminals) of a CMD president. Former presidents of the Medical Association, who also condemned the action, went to the group's headquarters to offer their support to Suero in his struggle for better salaries.
The Ministry of Health has stood firm in its position that it would only increase doctors' wages if this can be pegged to productivity.
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As is the custom when there are labor stoppages, directors and other administrative medical staff in the hospitals and military personnel provided service to patients who went to the health facilities.
Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero visited several hospitals in the National District and the province of Santo Domingo in order to check on the progress of the strike. Afterwards, he went to the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital with nurses' representative Minerva Marmolejos. Suero said that the strike would continue today and that tomorrow, Friday, he would report on the possibility of extending the strike into the coming week.
Still smarting from the aggressive way in which he and a group of colleagues were evicted from their occupation of the Ministry of Labor building, Suero said that President Leonel Fernandez has a point in his favor since he is the first Dominican leader to order the arrest and jailing (together with common criminals) of a CMD president. Former presidents of the Medical Association, who also condemned the action, went to the group's headquarters to offer their support to Suero in his struggle for better salaries.
The Ministry of Health has stood firm in its position that it would only increase doctors' wages if this can be pegged to productivity.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)