British hospitals are once again disrupted by a strike movement. Medical interns have been on strike since Thursday morning, June 27, and until July 2, to demand better salary conditions.
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With our correspondent in London, Émeline Vin
The interns are demanding a 35% increase in their salary, to compensate for the austerity of the 2010s. Sumi Manirajan is an obstetrician and representative of the BMA union at the origin of the mobilization: “ A newly qualified doctor earns 15 £ per hour (around 18 €). I graduated in 2021 and I saw my colleagues, the friends I studied with, leave the country to go to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, where they are paid properly. Those who stay find themselves with even more work and become exhausted. »
From 7am we strike until 7am on 2 July.
This is a critical stage of our #PayRestoration campaign which comes at a time when the general election swirls around our dispute.
Let’s make this #DoctorsStrike the biggest and loudest yet.
Tag us in your posts so we can share them 📸 pic.twitter.com/3ct1pd5Cch— Junior Doctors (@BMA_JuniorDocs) June 27, 2024
Maintain the pressure
This is the eleventh time young doctors go on strike in less than two years. The negotiations are not moving forward. This young psychiatrist feels “ exhausted… We don’t like to strike. Our colleagues are accommodating, but we know that it adds pressure to everyone. We would like to stop, but we feel like we have no other choice. »
On the bridge in front of the hospital, patients displayed a banner in support of the strikers. Hope Worsdale had surgery at the start of the year: “ The caregivers were great, but I could see that they were under pressure. They don’t have the time, resources, or ability to do their job properly. However, the working conditions of caregivers are the conditions in which patients are treated. »
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