Italian Doctors on Strike over Contract Dispute

World | March 4, 2005, Friday // 00:00

Thousands of operations and hospital visits were cancelled across Italy on Friday as doctors staged a one-day strike to protest against a three-year delay in renewing their work contract. It was the fourth such stoppage in the health sector in the past 13 months and unions warned they would extend the strike action if the government failed to meet their demands for improved working conditions. Unions said their members would only guarantee emergency treatment and predicted that as many as 90,000 operations would have to be postponed.

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