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Collected Item: “Medics go on hunger strike in Peru amid Covid-19 second wave”

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Medics go on hunger strike in Peru amid Covid-19 second wave

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Peruvian medics and health care workers are on a hunger strike to call attention to the need for further funding as the country struggles with its second wave of Covid-19. There is also a call to remove the country's Health Social Security, Fiorella Molinelli, over the mismanagement of Covid health and isolation centers, but Molinelli has yet to respond.

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Peru, strike, health care, hospitals, union

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cnn.com/2021/01/21/americas/peru-medics-hunger-strike-intl/index.html

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Tatiana Arias and Zamira Rahim

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2021-01-21
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