Portuguese Doctors Protest For Better Working Conditions

LISBON, PORTUGAL - JULY 23: National Health Service (SNS) Medical Doctors hoist posters while staging a protest outside Santa Maria Hospital on the first of a national two-day strike called by FNAM for better salaries and working conditions on July 23, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The National Federation of Medical Doctors (FNAM) stated that "In response to the Ministry of Health's unwillingness to negotiate key issues for doctors, the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) has sent out strike notices for July 23 and 24, with sit-ins on the 23rd in Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon, and for overtime work in health centers until August 31." FNAM also claims that the government intends to start negotiations on salary scales only in 2025. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)