From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org> Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:06:28 +0000 Subject: (Fwd) Ecuador threatens to fire striking health workers ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:35:47 -0700 From: NewsHound <speak-AT-hound.com> Reply-to: speak-AT-hound.com Subject: Ecuador threatens to fire striking health workers Here is your NewsHound news article from your "STRIKES" hound with a score "80." For more information, visit the NewsHound website at http://www.newshound.com or send an email to speak-AT-hound.com. Posted at 7:07 p.m. PDT Thursday, May 1, 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------ Ecuador threatens to fire >>striking<< health >>workers<< QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- The government warned public health >>workers<< Friday to end their two-week >>strike<< and return to their jobs by next week, otherwise they would be fired and hospitals would be run by the military. At least 15,000 health >>workers<< -- mainly doctors, nurses, maintenance >>workers<< and administrative staff -- are on >>strike<< to pressure the government to increase the national health budget. The hospitals are only treating emergency cases. The >>strike<< does not affect private hospitals or clinics. Health Minister Guillermo Wagner threatened Thursday to fire the strikers if they do not return to work on Monday. If they refuse, military doctors and health >>workers<< would step in to run the hospitals and the protesters would face arrest for >>striking<< illegally, Wagner said. An emergency decree issued last week by President Fabian Alarcon authorizes the military to take control of the hospitals. Soldiers were put on guard outside public hospitals Thursday but did not enter the buildings. The health >>workers<< are demanding the government increase spending on health to 22 percent of the national budget. Alarcon has offered to spend 8 percent. ------------------------------------------------------------ NewsHound is a service of Knight-Ridder, Inc. For more information, write to: speak-AT-hound.com This material is copyrighted and may not be republished without permission of the originating newspaper or wire service. ------------------------------------------------------------ + --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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