‘Overworked, underpaid’: Junior doctors in London stage strike over salaries

Junior doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) hold a rally in London's Parliament Square as their dispute with the UK government over pay continues. The strike is the latest in the NHS, from which nurses and other medical staff have also picketed over pay. The UK government has offered an improvement of five percent, far below the 26 percent real terms pay cut that the BMA says medics have suffered as salaries fail to keep up with soaring inflation. "What they're doing is not valuing junior docots" says Sumi Manirajan, deputy chair of the UK Junior Doctors Committee, "what that leads to is doctors leaving the country."