Senior Doctors Down Tools In Solidarity With Fired Juniors
24 December 2018
By Own Correspondent| Senior doctors have expressed anger and dismay by the manner in which junior doctors were summarily suspended recently by the Health Services Board (HSB) for engaging in what the Labour Court ruled on Saturday as an illegal job action.
All the junior doctors and radiographers who had been on strike, 550 in total, have been suspended.
Senior doctors who have been hitherto attending to critical patients since the strike began on December 1 have now thrown their weight behind the junior doctors.
In a letter written by the senior doctors and General Medical Officers (GMOs), they are withdrawing their services with immediate effect: