Thousands of resident doctors began a strike that will leave today for the first time to England without emergency services for two days in protest against the new contract that the British government wants to impose after the summer.
The work stoppage, which began this morning at 8:00 am local time and will last until 17.00 last two days and will also affect maternity services and intensive care.
This is the fourth break and the first in which affected emergency services in this region of the UK, after January conservations broke down between the government of David Cameron and the union British Medical Association (MBA) on conditional wage labor and professionals.
Hospitals were prepared from yesterday to serve a larger number of patients on a day in which more than 13,000 operations have been postponed and 100,000 medical visits were canceled to have doctors available in case of emergency.
A survey released today, prepared by Ipsos Mori for the BBC, which polled 800 adults, found that 57% of respondents support the strike by resident doctors, compared with 26% that shows otherwise.
While most of the sample, 54%, blames the British Government stopped, 35% condemns both the administration and doctors, and only 8% charge against the health sector.
British writer and author of the book series "Harry Potter", J. K. Rowling, went to Twitter to show support to doctors.
"Doctors who have been loyal to the British health for years not deserve to be accused of greed," said the social network to a user who criticized the doctors who join the strike but private practice.
The novelist, who is married to a doctor, said that all professionals who know "are afraid above all to make a mistake" and explained that "the new contract delivers the same resources but smaller portions."
Health services of England (NHS England) said they have designed a contingency plan "military-grade" to protect emergency services and emergency during the next two days.
From NHS England they stated that "actions like this can push significantly to health services", although they were "confident" that hospitals can cope with these two days of intense activity.
To do this, they have increased the number of people attending calls 111 emergency line and emergencies.
In February, after the lack of understanding, Cameron's government imposed a new contract these professionals, which the unions rejected.
The dispute between the two sides has focused on reducing the wage compensation for scheduled shifts in hours considered "anti-social" carried out by physicians.
The new contract equates, for example, extra allowances on Saturdays until 17.00 GMT at a weekday rates.
To that extent professionals oppose the grounds that it "devalues" their work against the Government's position, which argues that hospitals and to facilitate hiring more doctors weekends.