Nurses may abandon patients in strike over unfulfilled promise of salary raises

The Nurses and Midwives Trade Union announced yesterday that they will go on strike and consequently they may refuse to take care of patients. Nurses say that the government has not fulfilled its obligations from last year to pay nurses additional salaries and provide them with a 2% raise
above inflation. Yesterday nearly a 1,000 nurses demonstrated in front of Sejm. "We earn zl. 600-zl. 700 month. It's a shame," said nurses. "The financial system changed and the Treasury Minister will not make any
decisions on general salary raises only for one professional group," said deputy Health Minister Elzbieta Hibner. (Rzeczpospolita, page A5)