Comments on: CCSS: Striking hospital staff vandalized Nicoya hospital, assaulted other staff

By: aj seaman

aj seaman — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:54:00 +0000

I was proud to call Costa Rica my home. Now I am ashamed. In a civilized society, the people preventing in-patients from eating would be charged with murder.

By: Joe1047

Joe1047 — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:12:00 +0000

It appears that strikes are more popular in this country now than football and imperial.

By: Righty

Righty — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:06:00 +0000

Ben, Why did you not include the US?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:25:00 +0000

Tim they are Lazy over paid public sector union types that are killing Costa Rica just like Greece and Spain.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:23:00 +0000

This makes me so pissed off. These lazy Public sector unions with there big benfits act like mafia and gangs. I have been watching channel 7 all week and there benfits these Public sector unions get have sucked this country dry. Now the Public sector unions want violence against the media and the Tax payers. The public sector unions better watch out people are getting pissed off at them. Eye for and Eye and tooth for a tooth. Costa Rican Public sector Unions want a war with Tax payers bring it on i am ready.

By: richard schlinder

richard schlinder — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:20:00 +0000

In what part of this comes “Do no harm”?

By: Yeims

Yeims — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:40:00 +0000

Ten years ago the service wasn’t so bad. It’s plummeted, though, in the past two years and now it seems to be a total farce. Lack of discipline and professional conduct are part of the problem, and nepotism is a substantial part of the problem as well. Them of course, there`s the budget shortages, but I see this more as a consequence of their problems.

By: disgsted

disgsted — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:23:00 +0000

I had better luck I guess.. I been to the ER 4 times in 10 years. Calderon and Hospital Mexico food poisoning and another time flu severe dehydration and vomiting , , and Williams Trace hospital in Turrialba for a fractured ankle. .. I was treated fairly well and in a timely manner. However, I had other expats tell me their issues with the caja did not work out so well.

By: Timothy Williams

Timothy Williams — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:22:00 +0000

Actually they are protesting the planned privatization of some cleaning and security services. The people protesting slow payment on overtime and semi annual raise and temp hires are the municipal workers in Santa Cruz (a seperate, different strike started yesterday) — http://insidecostarica.com/2015/09/10/santa-cruz-municipal-workers-indefinite-strike-services-affected/

By: disgsted

disgsted — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:18:00 +0000

Seems those 40 staff members need to be immediately fired and charged with mayhem and vandalism … defecating in waste baskets tells us they are the lowest form of humanity and should not be working with or near the sick.

They are concern about what slow payment on overtime and their semi annual raise and temporarily hires..