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Junior doctors rally outside Senedd on day two of strike action

JUNIOR DOCTORS in Wales entered the second day of strike action today with a mass rally of hundreds of BMA members outside the Senedd in Cardiff.

Many home-made signs called for full pay restoration and, in a nod to the Covid applause for the NHS, some signs read: “Claps don’t pay the bills.”

Oba Babs-Osibodu, Newport registrar and junior doctors’ leader in Wales, told the demonstration that the offer from the Welsh government was the worst in Britain.

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