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FILE - Junior doctors hold placards on a picket line outside St Mary's Hospital in London, Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

Video. Four-day junior doctors strike set to cripple UK health service

Updated: 11/04/2023 - 11:30 GMT+2

Britain is bracing for a four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded health care system that one official has warned could be “catastrophic” and postpone up to 350,000 appointments.

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