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According to Jamaica Observer (General News), MANDEVILLE, Manchester — A 75-year-old outpatient was among scores of people who either left Mandeville Regional Hospital or waited in pain as most junior doctors withdrew their services on Friday. “This is not what I am accustomed to, and a lot of the people who were here waiting along with me, they left. I even left too and returned, yet I am still sitting and waiting. I am suffering from pain right now. I don’t know what cause it and there is nobody to tell me what it is,” the senior citizen who had a swollen left knee told the Jamaica Observer on Friday. The doctors were protesting the delay by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) in handing down a ruling as it relates to overtime payments. Senior medical officer at Mandeville Regional Hospital Dr Everton McIntosh told the Observer that he was “hoping and praying that normalcy” would resume by late Friday or early Saturday. “If thi
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