Abstract
Hospitals and health centers in Portugal were paralyzed as more than 20,000 of the country's estimated 26,000 physicians began a two-day strike, protesting pay and government health policy. The walkout, which left only hospital emergency rooms open, was the latest in a series of labor protests plaguing the center-right government. Doctors want pay scales revised. They also oppose government plans to relocate about 1,000 hospital specialists to small health centers in Portugal's poor interior regions, some of which have only one doctor for every 5,000 residents, compared with a 1-to-250 ratio in cities.
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