Nurses' strike plans divide Finnish government


FILE PHOTO: Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrives for a face-to-face EU summit in Brussels, May 24, 2021. Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS/

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's five-party coalition government is embroiled in an internal dispute over the rights of Finnish nurses to go on strike at several intensive care units (ICUs) while the Nordic country struggles with a severe lack of healthcare personnel.

One of the coalition allies, the Left Alliance, is against emergency legislation that the government took to parliament late on Tuesday to prevent the strikes, which hospitals have said will put patients' lives at risk.

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