The nation’s nurses began a 48-hour strike yesterday morning at 8 AM, affecting services in all the nation’s public hospitals. The strike, due to end on Friday morning at 8 AM, was called by the National Union of Dominican Nursing Services (UNASED) to push for their salary raise demand and to force the government to implement an agreement it made with nurses in 1997. The strike does not affect emergency services, nor private clinics. Yesterday UNASED leaders met with Public Health Minister Altagracia Guzmán Marcelino to discuss their demands, but no progress was made. UNASED Secretary-General Minerva Magdaleno told reporters that the Minister did not offer any concrete proposals to address union demands.
