Two weeks since the strike of doctors began, Health Minister Nikola Todorov said Friday that the strike was masterminded by the opposition and announced sanctions for the strikers unless the strike stopped the following week.

“I am going to insist on the implementation of this reform, not out of spite, a whim or vanity, but because I believe in the principle of the reform. Over the past period, we have been witnesses of an ‘orchestrated’ dissatisfaction of doctors. I used the word ‘orchestrated’ because it was very carefully created with the aim of attaining the set goal,” Minister Todorov said.

He also sent a message to SDSM that political parties gain credibility through implementation of reforms, procurement of equipment, construction of hospitals, and cutting prices of medications, none of which was done when SDSM was in office.