January 2, 2012
Greek doctors and pharmacists have gone on strike in the country's first walkout of 2012.
State hospital doctors have said they will treat only emergency cases until Thursday, in protest at changes to healthcare provision.
Pharmacists are angry at government plans to cut the cost of medicines in an attempt to reduce state spending.
A government spokesman warned on Monday that Greece needed more reforms to meet the terms of an international bailout.
Pantelis Kapsis told Greek television that the unity government led by Lucas Papademos could not afford to postpone austerity measures it had agreed with the EU and IMF as part of a second bailout deal last October.
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