Irish Nurses strike is affecting services widely while they are not ready resume work till their demands are met.

Strike is going on for its fifth day today after the talks with Finance Ministry on the issue failed. The nurse representatives met the Finance Ministry on Thursday but the meeting ended up with no results. The strike is expected to continue till next week.

No negotiations are planned by the government into same, the nurses has therefore, declared to continue strike till their demands are met, reported Channel 2 Television.

Nurses earlier signed an agreement with Finance Ministry stating that they won't go on strike till the next year provided that the government will consider negotiations and hold talks. The government postpones the talks which were scheduled to be held three months ago and the nurses replied in wrath by calling on the strike.

The patients at Machakos Level Five Hospital and other hospital are suffering badly since the nurses are absent from their duties. The officials are denying what they call "exaggerated demands" of nurses and are asking them to resume their work at the earliest.

About 28,000 nurses are on strike currently who said, "The offers we've been given by the treasury are simply disgraceful".