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Hungarian health care workers hold demonstration over low wage

Xinhua, July 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thousands of Hungarian health care workers, including doctors and nurses, gathered in front of the parliament building here on Friday evening, demanding changes in the health care system.

Demonstrators, who filled in the huge open square in front of parliament, used a government-mandated day off to hold their protest.

Maria Sandor, a nurse who heads the Civil Society for Hungarian Health Care in Hungary, initiated the gathering where she demanded that all health care workers including those at the bottom of the ladder, needed to share in salary increases.

Other dissatisfied groups joined the health care workers, including a number of teachers, and a member of parliament. Demonstrator demands included the resignation of Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog and changes to strike and referendum laws.

Commercial radio station Klubradio reported that overnight activity will include a roundtable with participation by patients, doctors, nurses, other health care workers, and politicians.

The daily Nepszava underlined that health care workers had been leaving Hungary to work elsewhere because of low wages, and that technical staff had been treated particularly parsimoniously. Endit