The government and the Dominican College of Doctors (CMD) reached an agreement Friday that will avoid more strikes by the doctors that serve in the public hospitals and clinics in the nation’s health system. The Government promises to consider a 100% salary increase in the 2006 budget and create a technical committee that will analyze the proposals for the repairing and the equipping of the various public hospitals.
For their side of the deal, the doctors promise not to go on any more strikes. The announcement was made at the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra in Santiago by Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado after a two-hour long meeting between Public Health Minister Dr. Sabino Baez, the head of the CMD, Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero.
The follow-up commission that will supervise the deal is made up of a representative of the CMD, a delegate from the Ministry of Public Health, a representative from the Social Security Institute, Monsignor Nunez Collado, and former Public Health Minister Altagracia Guzman Marcelino.