On a three-day strike since March 13, training doctors in Britain (who have not yet qualified) have been descending as they protest that they are underpaid and overworked and are at risk of being driven out of the health system as it faces record patient waiting lists.

Trainee doctors, often with many years of experience, work under the direction of senior doctors and represent a large section of the country’s medical community.

The planned their three-day strike is expected to put further pressure on the National Health System, which is facing waves of strikes by nurses, ambulance crews and other health workers.

27-year-old Daniel Zahedi is one of them trainee doctors who will participate in the strike which starts on Monday. He describes the hospital where he works in Cambridge, east England, as chronically understaffed.

In the first year of his education after graduating from Medical School had a basic annual income 32.7 thousand euros for at least 40 hours per work week.

However, as he explains, this week he worked around 60 hours, which is slightly above average but “not unusual”.

In January, the prime minister Rishi Sunak he set as one of his government’s five priorities the need to reduce hospital waiting times.

Faced with strikes by workers in many sectors, including train drivers and teachers, the government said a cap on public sector pay was needed to bring double-digit inflation under control.