Strike and lack of doctors aggravates Portugal’s health crisis
Thousands (more) surgeries, consultations and health exams at risk Thousands of planned surgeries, consultations and health tests and exams are at risk this week as doctors continue to insist a
Doctors maintain two-day strike scheduled for coming week
Portugal’s striking doctors are maintaining the two-day stoppage scheduled for next week (Tuesday October 17 and Wednesday October18) in spite of the new proposal to try and break the deadlock
Portugal’s nurses union calls strike on overtime
With the Portuguese health service deeply affected by the ban on overtime mounted by doctors’ syndicates, nurses now have called their own ban, to run from October 30 to November
Ministry of Health calls striking doctors back to negotiating table
With the Portuguese State health service unravelling – the brunt of jokes on satirical weekly programme Isto é Gozar com quem Trabalha – the ministry of health has agreed to
EDP case delayed yet again because of strike by court officials
Case involving former economy minister and former banker has taken YEARS not to get to court The start of the trial in the EDP case, in which former BES chairman
Nurses set November strike date
With the Council of Ministers today emphasising the reforms ‘approved’ for reorganisation of Portugal’s State health service, the country’s syndicate of nurses has scheduled a new strike – for Monday
First day of two-day regional doctors strike paralyses activity in Lisbon/ Vale do Tejo
Another day, another strike. This time it is a new doctors’ strike in the Lisbon/ Vale do Tejo region, led by SIM (the syndicate of independent doctors) which reports 89%
7th meeting with government ends with doctors declaring new strike date
The 7th meeting with the ministry of health has ended today with ‘discontent of union representatives’, a new strike being scheduled and further recriminations about the government’s “insensitivity”. FNAM, the
Portugal’s meat sector holds ‘national strike’
“It’s impossible to live on minimum wage” Workers in Portugal’s meat sector – particularly those working for national companies Nobre and Isidoro – are on a 24-hour strike today, which
Doctors in the north of Portugal start two-day strike
Another day, another public sector worker strike: this time doctors in the north, members of SIM, the independent syndicate of doctors, are striking until midnight tomorrow over what they call