Doctors stage lock-in at Cardiology Institute to prevent its closure
Doctors stage lock-in at Cardiology Institute to prevent its closure
AT least 60 junior doctors and 120 permanent staff members have spent the last month staging a lock-in at the Cardiology Institute in Madrid where they work in protest over its pending closure.
This means the capital's only hospital which specialises entirely in heart complaints, particularly complex ones, will be axed to save money.
All the junior doctors will be made redundant and the fixed employees are waiting to be transferred to another hospital.
The Cardiology Institute has been practising for 65 years in Madrid.
This is one of numerous lock-ins that have taken place over the course of this year to prevent closures and cutbacks.
In March, several supply teachers facing job loss finally let themselves out of Sevilla Cathedral after shutting themselves inside for five months in protest, and in June, around 20 people locked themselves inside the primary school in Puente de Vadillos (Cuenca province) to stop it from being closed down.
