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Burkina Faso Hospitals Paralysed By Health Workers Strike
Fakhir Rizvi Published November 23, 2016 | 08:55 AM
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OUAGADOUGOU, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Nov, 2016 ) - Hospitals were aralysed Tuesday in the poor west African country of Burkina Faso as doctors and health workers launched a three-day strike for salary hikes and increased allowances, officials said.
The powerful Syntsha union of medical workers which called the protest said hospitals had ground to a halt. Syntsha secretary general Pissyamba Ouedraogo told AFP that the protest was aimed at "making the government see reason." "There is no doubt that health services throughout the country are blocked as the personnel have not showed up," Ouedraogo said.
Health Minister Smaila Ouedraogo claimed that there were just four sticking points out of the original 63 demands made by the unions and added he was hopeful they would be resolved soon. "We have visited some hospitals in the capital and have noticed a significant reduction in their functioning," he said.
Patients were left to fend for themselves at the Yalgado Ouedraogo university hospital, the largest in the country, an AFP correspondent said. There was only one doctor in the emergency ward. A doctor at another medical facility in the capital Ouagadougou said he had turned up as it was "a matter of conscience." "This strike is not normal and it is not fair," he said.
"When the sick are struggling to buy medicines because they have no money, they are demanding higher salaries," said Bernard Kabore, whose brother needs a second operation after an accident. Burkina Faso has some 28,000 workers, of whom less than 1,000 are doctors. They are largely based in and around the capital of the country of some 18 million people.
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