Doctors syndicates have called a two-day national strike for May 10-11.
The reasons given are “lack of agreement with the health ministry after a year of negotiations, and its failure to comply with established promises - namely to pay overtime and open placement programmes”:
Said Jorge Neves of the doctors federation “we have been pushed into this by the accentuated degradation of public health services” visible, he stressed, every day.
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