Last-ditch effort underway to call off doctors’ strike

Minister of Health Michalis Damianos on Monday is continuing with last-ditch efforts to call off a doctor’s strike, with meeting set for 8.30am at the ministry with all stakeholders involved in the dispute.

Doctors unions last week had announced an unprecedented 48-hour strike to take place Tuesday to Thursday.

The health minister who has held “continuous and intensive” phone contacts with stakeholders since Friday to convince doctors to cancel the strike, called for a three-day...