Croatian Doctors Are Going on a Strike After Zagreb Protest
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- 30 Mar 2023
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Croatian doctors have announced a strike. Mirjana Livojevic, a doctor from the hospital in Sisak, recalls the last doctors' strike. It was ten years ago when she started working on her own. In ten years, she concludes, some things have remained the same, some have changed for the better, but some still have not. She said the strike could not wait, called Plenkovic out, and listed four demands the doctors would not give up on.
Index reports the conversation from RTL Direkt.
So you've definitely decided that a strike is the next step?
"Yes, I must say that we are certainly going on strike; we have not agreed on the exact date and form in detail," she said.
Is it a unique decision of all associations?
"It is a unique decision of all five umbrella associations in healthcare and all members at the meeting," she stated.
When is the earliest date?
"We cannot give exact dates because that decision will be made by the assembly of the Croatian Medical Union; they have the only right to do so. The assembly was previously scheduled for May 13, but that date is quite far away, so it is likely that an extraordinary assembly will be convened, which will then arrange a date," the doctor said.
"We will not wait for a decision on the strike," she added. Read More…
