Doctors reactivate the Primary Care strike in Madrid after the break for Christmas

After the truce that the Community of Madrid and the medical unions signed before the Christmas period, the return to regular activity, after the holidays, has caused the Primary Care strike to be reactivated.

This was announced by the representatives of the toilets after a new meeting with the Ministry of Health in which they assure that "

In this way, the Community of Madrid joins seven other autonomies where health professionals also threaten to go on strike due to "the precarious situations" that Primary Care is experiencing.

In the case of the capital, this Wednesday, Amyts has proposed to the regional government

: Enrique Castellón, director of the biotechnology company CRB Inbervío;

Tomás Cobo, president of the General Council of Official Colleges of Physicians, and José Ramón Repullo, emeritus professor at the National School of Health.

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for family doctors and paediatricians", pointed out Ángela Hernández, general secretary of AMYTS, who has also stated that there has been a "very small but positive progress" by placing the positions in primary care in "deficit positions" of the specialties.

"But we are very far away," she added.

As part of its strategy, Amyts, as the majority union of doctors, has proposed ceding six positions in the Strike Committee to family doctors and pediatricians from other more minority medical organizations and scientific societies to "unblock the negotiations" "

", they indicate from the union.

The regional government's offer, according to sources from the Ministry of Health, is based on a remuneration supplement for the care burden, since Primary is a deficit category;

another linked to the absorption of demand above 35 or 25 patients in Family Medicine or Paediatrics respectively, and a third for the afternoon shift in positions with difficult coverage.

"We have been able to verify once again the lack of will to reach an agreement on the part of the Amyts union, after the days of vacation and with the Ministry of Health working on a proposal", highlighted the counselor, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, who has added that now the doctors are asking for something that "had not been raised in the strike call": the linear rise.

"They know perfectly well that it is outside the scope of the negotiation," he concluded.

This morning the president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in the press conference after the Governing Council, described it as "Manichaean" to focus only on the health problems of Madrid, with protests in other regions such as Catalonia, Navarra or the Valencian Community. .

And she has stressed that the collapses in the emergencies of the La Paz Hospital or the Infanta Sofía occur "by peaks" and "specific moments".

," she assured.

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has defended the management of her Government in this matter because "never have so many professionals been hired or so much invested in Health" as now.

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