Sai L. Duraisingham
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Sai L. Duraisingham
@drsldurai
Geriatrician, Cynic, Feminist, Cheesy pun lover, Couch potato. Tweets are my personal views.


⚡️Today, 230 male and female doctors graduated in Gaza.

This Christmas, a lot of people will be working hard to keep our country safe, often away from their families. We invited public sector workers to Downing Street for an early Christmas dinner to say thank you.



I have been doing all I can – including sitting down with BMA yesterday – to stop these strikes. Unfortunately, we haven’t reached an agreement. My entire focus now is working with the NHS team here and across the country to get through the next five days. 1/3



“but this strike won’t be popular with the public!” why does a strike need to be popular with the public? why does every single industrial action in this country have to exist as a referendum on the very existence of organised labour?

Streeting says the cost of the five day resident doctor strikes, starting today, would be a quarter of a billion pounds.




















