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    Nurses and other health workers in Guinea-Bissau began a strike on Monday to demand compensation for unpaid overtime. However, their protest is unlikely to have a significant impact on health services which, in any case, are in a poor state as a result of the 1998 civil war, humanitarian sources said. “Not all health workers have observed the strike and life-saving operations will continue to be performed,” a humanitarian source in Bissau told IRIN. “The strike is expected to be of limited duration and to end on Wednesday,” the source added.

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