Health service strike gains momentum with more hospitals

Doctors from the Child and Mother Health Center in Katowice have closed the clinic and no planned treatments will be carried out. The hospitals are demanding an immediate 30% increase in wages, to an amount not less than zł.2,400 gross, and a 100% increase as of beginning of 2007. the employees are also demanding an increase in public expenditures in the health sector to an amount of 6% of GDP.  (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) A.K.