If you are poor, don?t get sick or hurt. The head of the Dominican Medical College (CMD) reaffirmed yesterday evening that the strike set for five days will paralyze service at 150 hospitals under the Ministry of Public Health and 23 hospitals under the Social Security Institute. Meanwhile, Public Health Minister Jose Rodriguez Soldevila, speaking at a political rally in Salcedo, said the CMD should reconsider their actions, as he felt a strike during the election campaign would be counterproductive. Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero, the president of the CMD, told reporters from Hoy that the deputies who were supposed to deal with the legislation that would raise taxes on liquors and cigarettes in order to finance a pay raise for the doctors had left the country and would not be back until the strike?s expected end. He called this a ?discourtesy?. Dr. Suero said furthermore that Deputy Radhames Castro, the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies? Health Commission, is due to travel to Taiwan today. The proposed strike action is meant to last for five days, according to the plans of the CMD?s executive committee. Suero was in Barahona, where he was named ?A Distinguished Son of Barahona? by the local municipal government.