Vasella...no recibe. Y los médicos se "indignan" y...no recetan.

“My only way of protesting is to go on a prescription strike,” doctor Bertrand Buchs wrote on his blog on newspaper La Tribune de Genève on Friday.

On October 25th, Novartis announced it would close its production site in Nyon, dismissing 320 people. Shocked by the news, the rheumatologist decided to boycott the company.

He said he doesn’t understand “the financial logic” behind the firm's decision since the Nyon salaries “are only a small detail in the balance sheet” of Novartis.

The Association of Physicians of Geneva has given him its support “unanimously” and “without hesitation,” Buchs wrote on his blog on Tuesday. He said he also plans to ask his colleagues to join his protest at an upcoming meeting.(Ver)

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ZURICH, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Protesters plan to gather in Basel and outside the villa of Novartis AG Chairman Daniel Vasella on Saturday in protest at hefty job cuts planned by the Swiss pharmaceutical company and others.

Outraged by news that Novartis is cutting 1,100 jobs in Basel and the small town of Nyon, Swiss trade union Unia, and Juso, the youth faction of the Socialist Party, are urging people to demonstrate.

The Basel-based group's decision to slash jobs in its home market came just a month after U.S.-based chemical maker Huntsman Corp said 600 of its jobs could go in Basel, a blow to the town of 190,000 inhabitants that has deep roots in the chemicals and pharma sector.

"Since July alone, four companies have decided to cut around 1,800 jobs in the region of Basel -- Swissmetal , Harlan and Huntsman, and now the pharma multinational Novartis, which at the same time posted a record profit of more than $10 billion," Unia said in a statement.

"Enough is enough! It cannot be that companies pull in billions at the expense of their employees," Unia said.

Novartis and Roche AG , which announced a round of job cuts last year, have stressed their commitment to investing in Switzerland, but both are outsourcing routine manufacturing and other operations to cheaper locations as they deal with a tough pricing environment and a strong Swiss franc. (Ver)

Youth faction of the Socialist Party (Juso) members demonstrate in front of Novartis Chairman of the Board Daniel Vasella's villa during "occupy villa Vasella" protest action in Risch near Zug, October 29, 2011. Juso demonstrators gather outside the villa of Novartis AG Chairman Vasella on Saturday in protest at hefty job cuts planned by the Swiss pharmaceutical company. Novartis AG is slashing 2,000 jobs in Switzerland and the United States to keep costs under control in the face of growing price pressures and the strong Swiss franc, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday.

REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (Switzerland)