By NNN-Prensa Latina
Panama : Panamanian Health Minister Rosario Turner resumed negotiations on Friday with public hospital medical leaders to solve an over-a-month strike in demand for higher salaries.
The meeting started again despite the demand by a spokesperson for the National Negotiating Medical Committee (Comenenal), organizing the protest, for direct talks with President Omar Torrijos.
The doctors also rejected the Torrijos proposal of a 20-percent a ceiling on salary increases, who said “and not one cent more.”
Turner explained that all current negotiators were appointed by the president and it seems this convinced strikers to return to the negotiating table.
Julio Garcia, a Comenenal leader, said negotiations came to a standstill because the government gave a final figure which did not meet the physicians” expectations.