Histadrut’s Kupat Holim (sick fund) clinics, closed two months ago by the doctors’ strike, were partially re-opened today. About 1,600 of the 2,500 doctors employed by Kupat Holim agreed to treat chronically ill patients and emergency cases two days a week. Others will continue to be treated, for a fee, at alternative clinics set up by the doctors when the strike began.
Some 7,000 Kupat Holim and government-employed doctors remained officially on strike, although the partial staffing of government hospitals was resumed Tuesday evening after a general walk-out over the weekend. Negotiations are expected to resume tomorrow on the basis of new proposals by Kupat Holim chairman Haim Doron.
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