Five months have passed since the last day of national medical strike and the situation has gone worse for doctors and doctors who work in the National Health System (SNS). Although the Minister of Health, Mónica García, has gathered several times both with the strike committee, composed of the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) and the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA), as with the medical organizations integrated in the group by a medical and optional statute (APEMYF) – of which the Madrid medical union is part of Minister actively militated in her time as spokesperson for Mas Madrid at the Madrid Assembly – no point of understanding has not been reached.
Today’s strike is the result of the lack of flexibility and health effort to deny doctors both an area of negotiation of their working conditions and a specific text that contemplates their particularities and dignified their profession. An inalienable petition for the collective that the minister played on Tuesday “unacceptable” and for which she has accused the medical unions of “discarding three years of work and blocking a necessary reform for the entire system.”
His statements only threw more firewood on the fire of the overflowing patience of the medical collective, which at some point believed in the promises of Mónica García to reform for better a text more than 20 years ago, that the minister only intended to “make up” to hang the medal.
If on the previous occasion there was talk of a follow -up close to 90%, with communities where all non -urgent activity was paralyzed, For today’s call, figures close to 100%are expected. In addition to the support of the profession for the profession (which brings together the Collegiate Medical Organization, to the State Council of Medical Students, to the Federation of Medical Scientific Associations of Spain and the National Conference of Deans of the Faculties of Medicine) the unemployment is supported by all other professional unions that are not confederate.
To this second day of strike all professionals are called with employment with the SNS, who can exercise their right from 00:00 on Friday, October 3 (provided that his turn begins from that moment).
Each regional health service has been signing or notifying these days its minimum services with the respective representative union convening at the regional level, so that There are communities that maintain the same minimums as in June, there are those that have seen them worsen and there are even seen how staff MIR is included on this occasion.
Social networks have burned with the issue of minimum services since, as dozens of doctors have denounced in their profiles, to organize them many hospitals have had 100% of the templates, which only demonstrates the lack of human resources and labor overload that professionals have been supporting for years.
“Respect and apologies” to patients
Even so, All union plants that have joined today’s strike have asked citizens “respect and apologies” for the discomfort that this day may cause them.
“This momentary sacrifice will result in a more fair, more human and efficient system, both for professionals and patients,” Galician unions said O’MEGA and SIMEGA. “A country that does not take care of its doctors or its health workers, is a country that puts its population at risk,” they added.
On the other hand, Concentrations in health centers of all cities in Spain will be added to the strikes, convened between 9:00 and 1:00 p.m.
Marco Forum Meeting
Regarding the other front that Mónica García is open for the absolute rejection of the draft of the Framework Statute by the union organizations of the table of negotiation, yesterday the meeting of the Marco for Social Dialogue forum was a mere procedure.
According to La Razón, sources attending the meeting, the autonomous communities of the PP showed their willingness to work for a new framework that “improve the working conditions of health professionals and that reduces patients in an improvement in assistance.” They also influenced the draft must be a “frame”, not a “regulation”, as the current text looks almost.
On the other hand, and as they already stated in the letters sent by their health directors to the minister last Wednesday, they stressed that there are numerous aspects that have economic impact, so they asked to know the financing and economic memory before ruling in this regard. They also demanded the legal and technical memories that support the text. Health committed them to arrive.
The unions, on the other hand, stressed that they are in favor of respecting the competencies of the autonomies and asked the ministry to assume their role and ensure the financing of the improvements that the draft collects. In addition, they demanded a clear calendar to continue negotiating the text, since they will not accept it as it is. In a statement, SATSE-FSES, FSS-CCOO, UGT, CSIF and CIG-SAÚD stood out after the meeting, their anger for the “plant” of the public function representatives and the Treasury (ministries that, according to health, have the powers to meet their main demands) and emphasized “the need for a joint government action, led by the Ministry of Health, to approve the frame The time they criticized “the intention of the autonomous communities of emptying this rule.”
On the other hand, they pointed out that, thanks to the massive concentration of SNS professionals held on Wednesday in front of the Ministry of Health, they had made it commit to “continuing negotiation with unions on important aspects not yet properly contemplated in the norm, such as partial and anticipated retirement, professional classification and work day”. Apparently, it will do so through monographic meetings, within the scope of negotiation, on each topic.