Around 500 people take part in protest organized by medics' trade union

• Published date: 27 July 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, July 27 (LETA) - A protest by the Health Ministry, organized by the Latvian Trade Union of Health and Social Care Employees (LVSADA), gathered around 500 participants on Wednesday, LETA observed.

Participants of the protest included people of various health care professions - medical nurses, their assistants, support staff, orderlies and others.

The protesters held various posters with slogans like "I want to see the doctor today, not after death!", "The government does not hear us!", "Promises before the elections, amnesia after the elections" and others.

Sarmite Plume, deputy head of the medics' strike committee and leader of the medics' union at Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, said at the protest that many physicians in Latvia are well paid and are not...