40 doctors in Nicaragua were on Monday sacked for attending to those injured in recent protests. According to reports, the forty doctors and nurses at a hospital in Jinotepe in southern Nicaragua were fired by the health ministry for political reasons and refused to pay them for July.
There have been reports of similar sackings in the country’s south with twenty doctors fired from the Oscar Danilo Rosales public hospital in the western city, Leon.
The human rights group have put the death toll at four hundred and forty-eight while the government claim it is only in the dozens. Nicaragua has experienced unrest since the first anti-government protest in response to controversial social security reforms which began since April eighteen of this year.
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