Polish nurses want more money for health care

Nurses in Warsaw have been on strike since Tuesday. They demand a pay rise and more money for the health care system. Igor Janke comments on the situation the Polish Prime Minister is facing in the realm of domestic policy. "The demonstrations are hindering the government's efforts to prepare and supervise the talks in Brussels, but that's the government's problem, not the nurses' or the doctors'. The government is there to solve problems. It has the appropriate instruments to take care of 20 different problems at the same time. We can expect this of our government, because that's why the nation 'hired' it in the first place. It's unfair to criticise the nurses for staging their protests the day before the summit in Brussels because for them the square root and double majority problems are abstract notions."

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