Madrid’s health workers strike over hospital privatization

By Paul Day MADRID (Reuters) – Thousands of doctors and nurses went on strike across Spain's Madrid region on Tuesday to protest against plans to spend less public money on health care, the most unpopular part of the government's drive to cut costs. Medical workers plan five one-day strikes every week through to early June over the regional government's plan to tender the management of six public hospitals to private companies. The protest shut down all but urgent care in 34 hospitals and dozens of health centers in the autonomous community of Madrid, a region of 6. …