Public health doctors vote for industrial action

PUBLIC health doctors last night voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, claiming the Department of Health had continuously delayed negotiations on a number of issues.

Last night the country’s 270 public health doctors and Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) members returned ballot papers with a majority 94% voting in favour of industrial action.

The date and type of action will be decided at a public health doctors’ committee meeting next Tuesday. However, an IMO spokesperson said an all-out strike was likely.