The World - News from June 17, 1986
Striking doctors in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, shut down six more hospital emergency wards in a fee dispute with the provincial government. Three emergency wards were closed earlier. While hospitals will still treat life-threatening cases, the closures affect an estimated 1,000 patients a day. The striking doctors, numbering about half of the 15,000 practicing in the province, want the government to drop pending legislation that bars physicians from charging fees higher than those set under public health insurance.
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