Doctors' strike on

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The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has announced that their proposed 24-hour strike will go on as scheduled. The CMD is holding the strike to put pressure on the government to increase doctors' monthly salaries to RD$59,000, as well as other demands, including the elimination of the recovery quotas charged to hospital patients. Economy, Planning and Development Minister Temistocles Montas described the strike as political. The strike was announced by CMD president Waldo Ariel Suero, who confirmed that as of 6am today 14,000 doctors in 172 hospitals around the country would stop working. Only patients in emergency situations or in critical condition will be treated. Suero says that the CMD feels betrayed by Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez, while adding that he was still open to dialogue aimed at reaching a resolution.

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