NewsWhore
02-19-2008, 01:50 PM
The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) is again threatening to go on strike. This time the strike will be for 24 hours at 150 public medical centers around the country. The CMD explained that only emergency patients and patients in critical condition will be treated during the strike. Listin Diario writes that the strike will be used to put pressure on the government to grant concessions, which include a salary increase to RD$58,000 for doctors, revision of the recovery quota charged by the hospitals, job provision for resident students and pensions for health personnel.
Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez said that he would replace doctors with doctors assigned to the Ministry of Public Health during the strike and added that no more meetings with President Leonel Fernandez would be granted. He added that this could be blamed on Waldo Ariel Suero, the CMD president.
Suero, in turn, argued that Rojas had tricked the doctors by creating a commission of sub-Ministers in order to play for time.
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Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez said that he would replace doctors with doctors assigned to the Ministry of Public Health during the strike and added that no more meetings with President Leonel Fernandez would be granted. He added that this could be blamed on Waldo Ariel Suero, the CMD president.
Suero, in turn, argued that Rojas had tricked the doctors by creating a commission of sub-Ministers in order to play for time.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)