Medical laboratory technicians went on strike demanding salary increases and greater public recognition of their crucial role in the fight against the disease. The strike involves technicians in medical laboratories in both the private and public sectors. A spokesman for one of the organising trade unions says the profession is virtually, and unjustly, invisible. The unions claim that 70% of medical decisions made in hospitals are based on their work.
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