Health and finance ministries pledge to hire 2,000 new nurses and 400 more doctors, spend billions on equipment; 1,641 new virus cases diagnosed over past day

Hospitals and health clinics nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and responses to coronavirus

With 813 nurses quarantined, union says personnel crisis was bad even before the pandemic; social workers continue labor dispute with protests across the country

More than 750 nurses in quarantine as demand for personnel goes up with reopening of coronavirus wards in pandemic's second wave

Week after nurses forced into arbitration with Health Ministry and ordered to call off labor action, other staff take up protest

Medical staff protesting heavy caseloads, poor working conditions in hospitals and clinics told to enter talks with Health Ministry

Walkout to impact hospitals and health clinics across country; emergency care and other essential services to continue