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Like every day, the 11 p.m. news news takes a look at the news broadcast by European television channels. It’s Eurozapping on Monday October 2.
Four out of five British hospital doctors are on strike for three days. An unprecedented mobilization in the country. Juniors and seniors have been demanding salary increases of around 35% for months, in order to catch up with inflation.
In Germany, medical practices are also angry. They deploretdhaving to manage more patients in less time. “We are suffocating under bureaucracy. A study shows that each doctor spends 60 days a year there“, deplores Mareike Grebe, liberal doctor. The austerity measures decided by the government are in question. Monday October 2, the practices remained closed.
Crisis situation in Portuguese hospitals
Entire departments are closing in Portuguese hospitals. A dozen of them have already had to close their emergency rooms, and the bleeding continues. Services lack doctors and their operation becomes impossible. “We had already warned, as early as 2020, but our policies do nothing“, accuses Silvia Massano, of the civil movement”Health doesn’t wait“Hospital doctors no longer want to exceed the mandatory 150 hours of overtime.