Nearly 300 Paraguayan Doctors To Resign Over Low Pay
Nearly 300 specialist and subspecialist doctors in Paraguay’s public health system plan to resign after five days of strikes over wages, medical supplies and temporary employment contracts.
Paraguayan public-sector doctors plan mass resignations after a five-day strike over wages, medical supplies and temporary contracts. Photo: Sinamed Paraguay.
August 31, 2026 Hour: 1:12 am
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Nearly 300 public-sector specialists plan to resign after a five-day strike over salaries, medical supplies and temporary contracts.
Nearly 300 specialist and subspecialist doctors in Paraguay’s public health system are set to resign Monday after five days of strikes failed to produce an agreement with the government of President Santiago Peña.
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The mass resignations follow a week of industrial action by about 11,000 public-sector doctors, who suspended their regular duties from Monday through Friday. The strike ended without a state response to their demands, according to the National Medical Union (Sinamed).
Sinamed Secretary General Rossana González said the resignations would affect key public hospitals and leave Paraguay’s entire pediatric surgery service without doctors.
“Specialists and subspecialists are submitting a mass resignation tomorrow (Monday), which will leave the entire pediatric surgery service without doctors — there are approximately 300 of them,” González said.
Text Reads: Public sector doctors in Paraguay concluded five days of strike without an agreement with the Government and announced new measures of force.
One of the hospitals directly affected will be the Niños de Acosta Ñu Pediatric Hospital in San Lorenzo, in the suburbs of Asunción. The planned departures would leave its pediatric surgery service without medical staff.
Doctors cite unsustainable salaries
The union said the resignations stem from what it described as an economically unsustainable situation for public-sector doctors and stressed that the action was not intended to harm patients.
“This is not against our patients, but the government has to understand that we have reached a point of unsustainability where the salary they are paying today practically does not even cover the cost of transportation to get to work,” González said.
The doctors’ demands included higher salaries, regular supplies of medicines and medical equipment at public hospitals, and permanent appointments for 9,000 workers currently employed under temporary contracts.
The five-day strike was accompanied by marches and sit-ins across Paraguay. In Asunción, about 5,000 health professionals took to the streets.
The planned resignations follow the failure of collective negotiations with the government to resolve the doctors’ demands.
Author: MK
Source: Agencies
