Iran Press/ Middle East: The strike began at 7 a.m. Tuesday after negotiations between the National Nurses Union and the Health Ministry broke down the day before.
It impacted nursing services at hospitals and health clinics across the country where nurses will only offer reduced services, The Times of Israel reported.
“The health and finance ministries are directly responsible for the intolerable queues in providing health care to the public and community. They create heavy burdens for the nurses and undermine their ability to provide safe and appropriate treatment to patients,” the nurses said in a statement.
A recent report by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel said that Israel’s health system has been subject to systemic failures in planning, budgeting and regulation by the government, resulting in an acute shortage of beds, inefficiencies, and lack of accessibility of treatment. 101/214
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