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- Subject: Ecuador:Doctors'Strike Continues
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:41:00 GMT
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- Subject: Ecuador:Doctors'Strike Continues
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- From el diario/La Prensa
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- Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is
- a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.
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- Ecuadoran Doctors' Strike Continues
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- Government-employed Ecuadoran doctors continued their
- indefinite strike on Janury 20. The strike began on January 4.
- Meanwhile, the government is threatening to invoke the National
- Security Law to force them to fulfill their responsibilities. The
- doctors are demanding the regulation of the Salary Law which
- would allow an increase in their salaries, but the government
- insists that the increase can only take place beginning in 1994.
- Only emergency patients are getting medical attention.
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- Health Minister Leonardo Viteri called on his fellow doctors
- to put aside their stand and make the same sacrifices all
- Ecuadorans are making during the crisis. He also said salary
- increases would have a negative effect on inflation and endanger
- the entire country. The doctors project the financing of an $8
- million (16,000 sucres) increase through the reduction of the
- $750 million (1.5 billion sucres) foreign debt payment foreseen
- for 1993.
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- Viteri said President Duran Ballen is ready to expidite the
- regluation of the law once the doctors end the strike, but with
- the condition that the salary increase occur in 1994, which has
- been rejected by the doctors. National Medical Workers Federation
- president Carlos Sanchez called on the government to keep up the
- dialogue, and suggested taht the salary increase could be
- progressive, to be paid on four parts. No agreement has been
- reached through the mediation of the church and the former
- presidents of the Medical Workers Federation. Nurses,
- obstetricians and dentists, as well as rural doctors, are
- threatening to join and strengthen the strike. (edlp 01/21/93
- from AFP)
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