Israeli doctors join nationwide strike

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Public-sector doctors will be launching a two-day warning strike beginning at 7 A.M. Tuesday that will affect hospitals and health clinics across the country, marking the first time in more than a decade that Israeli physicians will agitate for better conditions by refusing to work.

As part of the strike, all general public hospitals and geriatric and psychiatric medical centers that are run by the government or the Clalit health maintenance organization will be operating at reduced capacity. Doctors at Shaare Zedek Medical Center and both branches of the Hadassah University Hospital, all in occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem'), will also be working at a reduced level.

Non-emergency operations will be postponed and doctors at hospital outpatient clinics will not receive patients. 

Only on-call doctors are supposed to show up at the hospitals participating in the strike, the Israeli Medical Association has announced.

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