Group Health's facilities are to remain open, staffed with replacement workers, but some patients are being transferred and some operations postponed because of the strike.
When that happens, there are fewer beds for patients who need to be admitted, so hospitals get clogged up, planned operations postponed and waiting times for treatment become longer.
In west Wales, Hywel Dda Health Board postponed 905 appointments and 92 operations postponed.
In the Cwm Taf area (Merthyr, Pontypridd) 1,100 appointments and 80 operations postponed.
Mr. Elveson was scheduled for cataract surgery last week, but the operation was postponed because of his seizures.
The operation was postponed, and four hours later, the article reported, the patient died in his hospital room.
So the week before last it was quietly announced that the operation was postponed until the autumn at the earliest.
As the operation was postponed again and again I had so many questions going round my head – how long would I take to recover?
In 2008 the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERNnearear Geneva completed the construction of and inaugurated its new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, but full-scale operation was postponed until past the end of the year.
However, the number of people at the sites increases and the operation is postponed.
In the fixed policies, PM activities are performing exactly pre-specified time intervals while in the conservative policies, whenever production and PM activities have overlap the production operation is postponed and PM activities are conducted first (Jolai et al. 2009).
