00:00Healthcare workers in Paraguay continue striking for a fourth consecutive day to protest over poor working conditions
00:06and demand salary increases frozen for 14 years.
00:10Doctors are extending the national protest to demand the permanent hiring of contract workers,
00:15double pay for holidays, the provision of supplies and better infrastructure in public hospitals.
00:20The strike has paralyzed outpatient care over the government's failure to reduce workloads to 12 hours per week per contact.
00:28The decision to go on strike was ratified following the collapse of negotiations at the tripartite table between Union representatives
00:36and the government.
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