After a few days of total distancing and with a month already completed since the Primary Care health strike began in the Community of Madrid, the regional government and the unions found yesterday at least a point in common to suspend the protests during the Christmas dates .

This was ratified in an agreement signed by the Ministry of Health and the workers' representatives, headed by Amyts, the majority among the doctors, to

keep the strike paused until January 11,

when both sides have promised to maintain dialogue.

An unexpected situation since the communication was broken after the confinement of the unionists in the Ministry of Health for 36 hours after the fifth meeting was held to try to close the health crisis in the region.

In the joint letter, headed by the General Directorate of Human Resources of the Ministry of Health, it is stated that the commitment reached in yesterday's meeting is based on "analyzing and evaluating the measures presented at today's meeting",

"increasing the value of the Individual Health Card for each professional" and "encourage the coverage of places for family doctors and paediatrics in the afternoon shift"

.

These will be the points that must be dealt with later in the meeting on January 11 once the first thaw has occurred.

However, although the Ministry of Health is optimistic, sources from the medical unions still do not see a definitive agreement to call off the call.

"

This does not bring us closer to an agreement, there is still a long way to go, it is just a way to resume communication

," they point to this newspaper in a similar vein to that shown yesterday by the general secretary of Amyts, Ángela Hernández, for whom this The first step is "a reformulation by both parties of the situation that was totally stuck."

"We are going to have a few days to be able to study this situation on both sides and call a new meeting to see if an agreement can be reached or continue with the strike," the union representative said yesterday.

"If everything remains the same, the strike will continue," say sources from the medical unions present at the meeting.

The counselor, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, added that the "best of news" is that as of today

"health care returns to normal for Madrid residents in Primary Care."

Before that point of agreement was reached, in the morning, the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, had stated that the protest taking place in Madrid "is not a health conflict" but rather a "political" issue. where there is "a labor conflict in the middle".

"

I don't know if they are more in erosion than in something else because the criteria are constantly changing even knowing that it is not possible to meet them

," insisted the popular leader, who alluded to the audio of a health worker, a member of the strike committee, who made public two weeks ago, in which it said that the doctors would extend the strike until the elections in May.

The regional president also compared the situation in the capital with other autonomous communities, without making specific references, where protests by doctors are taking place.

Ayuso stressed that the situation in Madrid is "much worse" because

the unions are carrying out "such wild strikes" nowhere else

.

Specifically, in the region, the protests lasted five weeks because the Primary Care toilets insist that they are overwhelmed and that they do not have sufficient resources either to deal with the number of patients within their shift or to cover the out-of-hospital emergencies, which at the end of October, the Ministry of Health reopened, converted into 80 Continuous Care Points.

This last meeting took place yesterday in the midst of a climate of tension between the Administration and the unions.

Last Tuesday it was Amyts who asked in writing to resume contacts with Enrique Ruiz Escudero's department to unravel the situation and reach

"a negotiated and satisfactory solution, aware of the suffering that it causes professionals and patients

. "

That same morning, the counselor agreed to hold it "as quickly as possible" to "reach the desired agreement."

Because the previous meeting, the fifth, had ended with a 36-hour confinement of the professionals at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health.

A situation that has been made ugly by the regional government and, yesterday, again by the president, who accused the strike committee of going to the meetings with the idea of ​​"squatting public buildings."

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