Doctors in Italy strike over pension cuts and working conditions

Healthcare professionals in Italy staged a 24 hour national strike on 5 December, as nursing and doctors’ unions took to the streets to protest against pension cuts and other measures set out in the government’s 2024 budget bill.The major trade unions—Anaao Assomed and Cimo Fesmed (doctors of the national health service), Nursing Up, and Cimop (doctors of the private sectors)—joined forces to strike and protest in the streets against economic plans set out by the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, which they say will severely weaken Italy’s national health service.“If the government ignores the needs of health professionals we have no choice but taking action, and this is only the beginning,” said Pierino Di Silverio, national secretary of the biggest union, Anaao Assomed, speaking to The BMJ. The union is demanding that the government reverse its plans and give due recognition to doctors and managers of the national health service, to…
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