Dilemma For Doctors
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ROME, April 28.
Doctors at a strike-bound mental hospital near Rome told reporters today that its 250 inmates might have to be drugged to sleep unless the staff returned to work.
The four-day-old strike by the hospital's 87 nurses, orderlies, cleaners and porters left only six nuns and eight I doctors to look after the patients, and they have been working virtually non-stop for 100 hours.
The staff walked out in protest against the sacking of an orderly for beating a patient. He was reported to the hospital authorities by one of the nuns. Another orderly, Iwho held the patient while he ;was being beaten, was suspended for six days.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 15
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