Some hospitals forced to transfer patients due to nationwide nurses strike
As a result of the nurses' nationwide strike, some hospitals are beginning
to transfer patients to other facilities. Four people were relocated from
the Pasteur Hospital in Lodz yesterday and 10 on Monday. Almost half of
the 50 nurses working at the hospital are on medical leave due to effects
of a hunger strike they had been staging. Yesterday a hospital in Wroclaw
was close to transferring six children to a distant facility in Belchatow,
but at the last minute nurses agreed to limit their protest. The situation
is not quite this dramatic everywhere, but nurses are protesting in 35
health-care facilities. Their primary demand is a pay increase, as a
qualified nurse earns on average only zl.700 monthly. (Zycie, p.5)
