The firemen and the Samur are facing each other in the capital

.

These two emergency services of the Madrid City Council are experiencing a discreet

war

due to the decisions of the municipal leadership when deciding

powers to intervene in accidents, accidents, fires or suicides.

They have even come to the hands or have friction in some intervention.

The unions of the Samur denounce that the General Directorate of Emergencies is subtracting more and more powers to the Samur doctors for the benefit of the firefighters.

"In fact,

in interventions with suicides in Madrid a protocol has been approved that relegates the Samur doctors

", explain the unions of this municipal service.

This tense coexistence has exploded after the last municipal security commission last Wednesday.

At that meeting, the general director of Emergencies, Enrique López Ventura, indicated that

a health assistance unit will be created within the Municipal Fire Department

after a question from Vox councilor Pedro Fernández.

As a result of the intervention of López Ventura, the five unions of the Samur, CCOO, UGT, CSIT, CSIF and CITAM, have prepared a joint statement asking Inmaculada Sanz, delegate councilor of the area, the immediate dismissal of the general director of Emergencies.

This is a scandal. What would the firefighters think if in the Samur we created a unit to put out fires. We support the provision of basic training for firefighters to act in first response until the arrival of the Samur, but a health service cannot be created in the Fire Department, ”the Samur unions complain. "The management of the General Director of Emergencies is causing more and more friction and a worse relationship between two services that are already very corporate", continue the municipal doctors, who believe that the problem is that "he has started to direct the area of Emergencies to a former firefighter who undervalues ​​the Samur ».

«López Ventura's intervention in the commission has been the last straw that has filled the glass of the patience of the Samur workers and their legitimate representatives. This is caused by the carelessness with which the Samur service is being dealt with in various areas, such as the attempt to divert care competences towards those who do not have the competence, the continuous delay in the processing of procedures typical of the service, the blocking of the Relationship of Work Positions or the call of oppositions with bases approved in the case of nursing professionals for months by the Official Board of the Madrid City Council ", reads the statement of the unions.

López Ventura was appointed general director of Emergencies by Javier Barbero, in charge of the Security area in the Government of Manuela Carmena.

He is in charge of directing the Samur and the Firemen.

"It is true that the relationship between both areas is suffering and that also affects the quality of service to citizens," acknowledge the bulk of the firefighters.

"The problem is that López Ventura is paying favors to the firefighters and his decisions are affecting the Samur above all," they add.

The directors of Samur have also joined the request for the dismissal of López Ventura.

They consider the situation created "humiliating and unsustainable" for a service that has worked for the city for 30 years and which is "made up of 120 doctors, 124 nurses, 600 emergency technicians and 1,200 Civil Protection volunteers."

"Both from the Security Area and from the City Council itself, the Samur service, one of the best Emergency services in the world, is valued and supported," said a municipal spokesman.

"And the objective is to continue providing it with the best means, as has been done during this mandate with an expansion of the workforce, with more and better work tools and with new vehicles, among other aspects," added the Consistory.

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