Nurses protest warn, "This is the last alarm bell"

The protest of 600 nurses and health sector workers came to an end last night. The employees demanded sensible wages, a cease to all redundancy plans and in protest of the new National Health Fund. They marched from the Prime Minister's Office to the Presidential Palace, to stop in front of the Health Ministry. A group of from the demonstrators were invited into the ministry by the Health Minister Leszek Sikorski, who told them that he plans to establish a team of experts to deal with the problems faced by the health sector. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7; Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) A.K.