The World - News from July 4, 1988
About 3,000 Israeli nurses walked off the job to protest a government health plan they say will increase the burden on already understaffed hospitals. Physicians who have been staging short strikes for several months closed out-patient clinics and performed only emergency surgery. Like the nurses, the doctors oppose the government’s health proposal, which calls for shortening the waiting list for operations by introducing a second daily surgery shift. Ilana Cohen, head of the nurses’ union, said the government should first substantially increase the number of public hospital nurses.
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