Health professionals staged a 24-hour nationwide strike over the government’s proposal to cut pensions and other measures affecting healthcare. Some 85% of medical staff abstained from work and consequently up to 1.5 million medical appointments may have been missed as a result, say trade unions."We are talking about a cut in the pension allowance of at least 50,000 people, amounting to up to € 26,347 per year for life," the unions said.
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