NewsWhore
02-20-2008, 02:20 PM
While Dr. Bautista Rojas Gomez, Minister of Public Health, and Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero, the president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) agree that they should talk, and that they will meet wherever necessary, neither of the two has taken any steps to halt the strike called for tomorrow in public hospitals and Social Security Administration health centers. However, Dr. Suero called on his doctors not to heed pressures from the ministry, since, supposedly, according to Hoy newspaper, the minister himself will be summoning doctors to break the 24-hour work stoppage in more than 200 hospitals and care centers.
Meanwhile, Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez called on the doctors to go to work and to have a conscience. He told Diario Libre reporter Jesus Arias Parr that these strikes were now "parties" because of their frequency and lack of purpose. The leading Dominican prelate spoke at a meeting of the Catholic Church's health Ministry personnel. The church sponsors 60 parish clinics that provide first aid and other services for poor people. Lopez Rodriguez called upon the doctors to work, "and then we'll see how we can provide better care for these people who are really begging for health care services."
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Meanwhile, Nicolas de Jesus Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez called on the doctors to go to work and to have a conscience. He told Diario Libre reporter Jesus Arias Parr that these strikes were now "parties" because of their frequency and lack of purpose. The leading Dominican prelate spoke at a meeting of the Catholic Church's health Ministry personnel. The church sponsors 60 parish clinics that provide first aid and other services for poor people. Lopez Rodriguez called upon the doctors to work, "and then we'll see how we can provide better care for these people who are really begging for health care services."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)