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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Philip Marcelo

A young cancer patient and his family worry nearly a month into New York City nurses’ strike

NYC Nursing Strike Patients - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

When thousands of New York City nurses walked off the job last month in the city’s largest strike of its kind in decades, 9-year-old Logan Coyle was a patient in the cancer unit at NewYork-Presbyterian’s children’s hospital in Manhattan.

Logan was recovering from his latest setback in a two-year battle with advanced liver cancer that has already included chemotherapy and a complex triple transplant of a liver, pancreas and small intestine.

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