Strike in
We Denounce the Attacks on Doctors and Nurses in Nasiryah
hospital and Support their Demands for Security
On April 17, 2007 a
strike in Nasiryah Hospital was called for by doctors, nurses, service workers,
and adminstration employees in response to a vicious attack perpetrated by
military gangs on the doctors at the Emergency Unit.
Security forces
were called in order to provide protection for the doctors and workers. Later,
the head of Nasiriyah Health Department, the mayor, and the deputy of Police
Chief arrived to negotiate ending the strike. The meeting started and an
agreement was reached to temporarily end the strike in Emergency and Intensive
Care unit’s.
The next day, April
18, at 8 a.m. the workers and doctors of the hospital gathered and resumed the
strike. The mayor, head of health department, and Nasiryah Police Chief returned
in an attempt to end the strike. The negotiations commenced again and still
proceeding. The strikers are persisting to demand the provision of full security
for all workers in health institutions of Nasiriyah.
We in the Nasiriyah
Committee of the Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq support and stand by the
strikers until achieving their demands to provide security and safety for
workers in all health institutions and for all citizens against the attacks of
criminal armed militias and call for the immediate realization of these demands.
Nasiriyah Committee
The Left
Worker-communist Party of Iraq – LWPI
18-4-2007