Two hundred doctors will take industrial action if the Department of Health does not meet them before the end of the week to discuss an increase in pay, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) warned yesterday .
The doctors, mostly general practitioners, provide a 24-hour on-call service to the State's 70 district and county homes (community hospitals).
A spokeswoman for the IMO said yesterday they had had a number of meetings with the Department and had requested a final meeting to resolve the matter. They wanted to meet the Department before the end of the week, but the Department had not come back to them. If a meeting did not take place, two weeks' notice of industrial action would be issued.