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AKARTA: The board of management of Budhi Asih Hospital in East Jakarta announced on Wednesday that medical services at the hospital were back to normal after 20 specialist physicians had held a strike demanding improvements in hospital facilities and an increase in doctors’ salaries the previous day.

“Everything is back to normal now. We will negotiate the doctors’ demands,” said the hospital’s spokesman Mondang Sirait.

Mondang said that the hospital’s administration would involve the Jakarta Health Agency in the negotiation process. “We have also called on the city administration to monitor this matter,” he said. “We will seek a win-win solution.”

Mondang hoped that the doctors would not launch another strike because the move had neglected patients’ welfare.

“To serve our patients is our top priority,” he said.