LONDON.- About 25 thousand ambulance workers and others emergency services They went on strike this Wednesday in Great Britain, adding to another union’s dissatisfaction with the government’s actions.

Paramedics, drivers and emergency call operators are national strike recently, however, in recent months the rail system has been paralyzed for several days and the public health system has become saturated because of this dissent.

Thousands of other workers, incl nurses, train and bus drivers, and postal employeeshave joined the strike in recent months – the biggest in decades in the UK – to demand better wages, as inflation rates soar to ever highs. great Britain since the early 1980s inflation rate it rose to 11.1% in October, before dropping slightly to 10.7% in November.

Salaries, particularly in the public sector, have not followed suit dizzying upgrade speed of living expenses.

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Health authorities warn that the impact of Wednesday’s strike could be worse than December’s, as more staff stopped working, including those handling emergency calls. People are advised to just call emergency case life-threatening situation—such as a heart attack or serious car accident—and an ambulance will respond to such situations.

They added that less urgent cases would not be prioritized, some said they have to go to the hospital in their own way.

Union leaders say some of the lowest paid public health workers, including call handlers and drivers, nearly fell under national minimum wage.

When people accuse us of endangering the public, I will say that it is this government that has endangered the people by continuing to refuse to talk to us. There are no offers on the table,” said Christina McAnea, union general secretary for UNISON, addressing striking workers outside an ambulance station in Sheffield, northern England.