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NewsWhore
08-14-2009, 03:50 PM
Physicians at the Francisco Moscoso Puello Public Hospital are back on strike in protest of the firing of 5 doctors and 2 nurses, accused of assaulting the hospital's director, Roberto Lafontaine. This newest stoppage is a strange twist in what has now become the saga of the month.
The nations doctors had gone back to work yesterday when talks were resumed between the Ministry of Public Health and the Dominican Medical College (CMD) with Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado as mediator. But when after a 4-hour first meeting Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez refused to reinstate the doctors, CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero said negotiations would not continue without that concession. There are 200 resident doctors at this particular hospital.

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