More than 20,000 members of Unite, Unison and Nipsa walk out over pay and conditions.
Striking healthcare workers say they are underpaid and their departments do not have enough staff
Trusts have been in contact with patients who will be affected and further details are available on trusts' websites. "We need valued, we need paid appropriately and we've had enough and this is going to continue unless they do something about it."Deirdre Murphy, a staff nurse at Daisy Hill hospital in Newry, County Down, said the health service is "not on its knees, it's flat on the ground".Image caption,"We want safe staffing levels because one nurse can not do the job of three people, it is totally unsafe," she said.
"The hospitals are choc-a-block. People are on corridors, and everyone's being overstretched and overworked," he told Good Morning Ulster from the picket line at the Royal Victoria Hospital. The Royal College of Nursing is not involved in Thursday's strike, but almost 8,000 nurses who are members of Unison will take part.More than 20,000 NI healthcare staff are on strike"The NHS is in a terrible state and nowhere is worse than in Northern Ireland," she said.
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