Buenos Aires , Argentina ( CNN ) -- Argentina 's capital city was beset by strikes Thursday , with teachers , doctors and transit employees refusing to work over money matters . Teachers and doctors in Buenos Aires went on strike Wednesday and are scheduled to go back to work Friday , the government-run Telam news agency and other outlets reported . Subway workers will go on strike Thursday night for a few hours , they said . This is the fourth work stoppage in the past six months for doctors . Only emergency cases are being treated . The doctors are not only seeking better salaries , but also improvements to the public health system . They are protesting `` the lack of money in the public system , the possibility that the health budget will be reduced by 500 million pesos ( about $ 130 million ) , the lack of professionals , the lack of labor to solve the problems in Argentina 's public health , '' said Alicia Kobylarz of the Federal Syndicate of Health Workers . The nation 's public hospitals treat the poor and needy . Health professionals want the government to employ more doctors to meet rising patient loads and an increase in diseases and epidemics such as H1N1 flu and dengue fever . The hospitals depend on funding from the provinces , leading to major differences in each area 's needs and what local health care facilities can offer . `` Provinces that have petroleum income , for example , are provinces that have better budgets , that have better hospitals '' said Aldo Neri , a former national health minister . `` There is much inequality in the treatment that the poor receive in Argentinean public hospitals depending on which province they live in . That 's why I say the inequalities have increased . '' The current health minister , Juan Manzur , said next year 's health budget will have an increase of more than 15 percent , greater than the national budget , which will have a 12.4 percent increase . Teachers also want greater pay and announced Thursday they would go back on strike Tuesday because of failed talks with Buenos Aires Education Director Mario Oporto . The teachers say they want their raises by year 's end . Oporto said there 's no money for raises now , the official Telam news agency reported . `` The province 's posture is very clear : There wo n't be raises in 2009 because there already have been , '' Oporto told a radio station , according to Telam . `` We 're sorry about the work stoppage , and we are ready to keep working . This time we are very firm : There will be no raises in 2009 . '' Daniel Scioli , governor of Buenos Aires Province , said public education `` is our top priority '' but also emphasized there would be no raises this year , the news agency reported . Teachers ' union leaders complained Thursday that government officials went to schools Wednesday to find out which teachers were there and which had joined the work stoppage , Telam said . Subway workers in Buenos Aires announced they will walk off the job at 7 p.m. Thursday . They , too , want pay raises . Educators also are on strike in neighboring Chile , where professors say they are owed a `` historic debt . '' The indefinite strike entered its fourth day Thursday and negotiations are scheduled to resume Friday . Jaime Gajardo , president of Chile 's College of Professors , told a local TV station there has been improvement in negotiations with the government and the talks could advance noticeably in the next few days . Pablo Zalaquett , the mayor of Santiago , the capital of Chile , said the two sides are closer on a pay bonus the professors want . CNN 's Javier Doberti contributed to this report .
Teachers , doctors in Buenos Aires scheduled to go back to work Monday . Subway workers were scheduled to go on strike Thursday night for a few hours . Doctors seek better pay , improvements to public health system . Argentina 's neighbor Chile also seeing strikes by doctors .