Patients at Tanzania's main referral hospital continued to be neglected on Tuesday as a strike by junior doctors and medical interns entered a sixth day, despite the government acting on their demand by almost doubling their salaries. Tanzania's chief secretary, Matern Lumbanga, told a news conference on Monday that the government had raised the monthly minimum salary for the doctors from 226,860 shillings to 403,120 shillings (1 US dollar = 1,180 Tanzania shillings) effective January 2006.