Twenty NGOs expressed their support for Chiapas nurses who went on a hunger strike to protest the crisis in the health sector. “Meanwhile, members of the National Assembly of Social Organizations-Magisterial and Popular Movement, where teachers of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) participate, marched through various streets, just outside the Women's Hospital Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa where there [was] camp of doctors, nurses and other workers who have held a protest for four months and where eight days ago the nurses started a hunger strike. At the magisterial meeting, speakers expressed their support for the struggle of unionized workers in the health sector. As with education, they stressed, the federal government is hanging the national public health system to gradually lead to privatization and thereby favoring large national and international business interests.”