Doctors resume talks

[NewsWhore]

The DR's doctors have left the picket line once again and are resuming talks with the government in a latest attempt to resolve their ongoing wage and benefits dispute. The doctors had been barricaded in a health center opposite the Presidential Palace. The doctors at the center had some minor confrontations with police, but after a meeting with journalists Miguel Franjul and Danny Alcantara the doctors decided to return to the negotiation table with Public Health Minster Bautista Gomez Rojas. Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero said that the doctors were confident that a conclusion to the dispute was imminent. The CMD has used all forms of non-violent protest over the last year and half to get the government to respond to its demands, so far to no avail.

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