Nurses in Alameda picketed outside a hospital this week to protest cuts being made to surgical services that they say could impact health care for lower income and marginalized Alameda residents.  

The nurses rallied at Alameda Hospital on Clinton Avenue after public health care system Alameda Health System announced the decision to cut elective surgery at Alameda Hospital and relocate these services to Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus in Oakland and San Leandro Hospital. 

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Aditi Praveen Kariyanahalli is a digital media intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at Fordham University, double majoring in journalism and political science. She serves as the arts & culture editor at The Fordham Observer, her university’s student newspaper. Aditi enjoys writing about visual art, local politics and housing justice. In her free time, she loves to read and swim.