The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has called for a 24-hour strike tomorrow, Wednesday 19 September 2017, across all of the public health hospitals in protest for what they call violations of the agreement made with the government last year.
CMD president, Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero, said that more than 5,000 doctors were left out of the second part of the 15% salary increase, which should have been applied in August this year.
Suero said that despite the fact they had spoken with the authorities, nothing had been done and, in addition, the situation of deterioration across most of the hospitals was getting worse. He said that more medical staff was needed to serve the hospitals there was aneed to improve the situation of retired doctors. Suero went on to explain that on Wednesday only emergencies cases would be attended to, but they would return to work on Thursday at 6am to prepare for the passing of Hurricane Maria.
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Listin Diario
19 September 2017
