72 assistant physicians and surgeons in the hospitals of the Jewish Community of Budapest have stopped work because they have not been paid their salaries.
The Presidium of the Jewish Community explains to the J.T.A. representative here that the assistants had agreed to work in the hospital without pay to be able to specialise, because Jews are barred in the State and Municipal hospitals.
In reply to the intervention of the Hungarian Medical Association, the Jewish Community states that it has a deficit in its budget and therefore cannot pay its hundreds of assistant doctors. It would be a great pity, it adds, if the Jewish Community clinics could not continue their work, because they treat 70,000 patients during the year, two-thirds of them non-Jews.
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