Primary Care doctors in Madrid will go on indefinite strike from November 21

The indefinite strike of doctors that began this Monday at the Continuous Access Points of the Community of Madrid will be extended to all Primary Care in the Community of Madrid.

As announced by AMYTS, the majority union in this sector, 4,240 family doctors and 720 pediatricians will stop their activity indefinitely as of November 21.

In the public statement, the union points to "the situation of Out-of-Hospital Emergencies with the chaos experienced" in the opening of 24-hour health centers and "the very serious overload that health centers are suffering" as the determining factors for Health professionals join their colleagues from out-of-hospital emergencies in this strike call.

This call occurs in the middle of a cascade of resignations and dismissals in the Ministry of Health and in full reorganization of out-of-hospital emergencies.

Yesterday, the department headed by Enrique Ruiz Escudero dismissed

of Primary Care and head of Management and General Services, Pedro José Suárez Sánchez, who added to the resignations last Thursday of all those responsible for the Primary Care Assistance Directorate in the area Southeast and the deputy manager of Health Care in Primary Care, Nuria Fernández de Cano.

"There have been some resignations, but it is that in the public administrations there are modifications of the organization charts, and these professionals have spent very hard months with the pandemic," said the spokesman for the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ossorio, at the conference on Wednesday. post-Governing Council press.

In fact, the regional government's plan is to remain in its "transitional model" for out-of-hospital emergencies, advanced by EL MUNDO and raised this Monday, to keep the 80 centers open 24 hours with two care modalities:

as the regional government proposed from the beginning, while

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