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Nurses employed at hospitals, municipal infant clinics, and Clalit Health Services are holding a 24-hour warning strike today after negotiations with Ministry of Finance representatives failed to yield results. Strike leaders are protesting against increasing overcrowding at hospitals and a shortage of nursing staff in hospital wards.
"The time has come for patients to be removed from the hallways, and for all the departments that were closed to be reopened," said nurses' union chairwoman Ilana Cohen this morning. "Patients deserve to lay in a hospital bed under decent conditions. The nurse shortage problem needs to be resolved, and patients should not be abandoned in corridors."
The Ministry of Finance said that negotiations with Cohen lasted through the night. "Despite efforts by the deputy finance minister and Ministry of Finance representatives to find a solution to ease the nurses' burden, an agreement has not yet been reached, and the nurses decided to strike today. Negotiations will continue today in an effort to find a solution, and to end the strike as quickly as possible," the Ministry of Finance announced.
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