The department says the action, a first for NI doctors, will cause disruption to patient care.
Junior doctors in Northern Ireland are taking strike action for the first time in a dispute over pay.Of those who voted, 97.6% were in favour of going on strike, with a 63.7% turnout, the British Medical Association said.The DoH said it was committed to negotiations with the BMA junior doctors committee which "offers the best prospect of deescalating the situation".Junior doctors in Northern Ireland are striking for just one day - from 08:00 GMT on Wednesday until 08:00 on Thursday.
"I'm contracted from 08:00 to 17:00 but I've yet to get out at 17:00 and any extra time I stay, I'm not reimbursed for that."The BMA said junior doctors' salaries in Northern Ireland fell by 30% over the past 15 years. "All of us junior doctors from the F1 who have just come out of university, up to a ST7 who is basically nearly a consultant, with about 10 years of experience, we are all feeling chronically overworked, underpaid and undervalued," he said.
The DoH said because of this there would be "substantial disruption to planned hospital activity" on the strike day and as services recovered.Many people on the picket lines in Derry held placards and signs calling for better pay
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