The weeks go by and the distance between the claims of the Primary Care doctors and the proposals of the Ministry of Health continue to not coincide while the strike continues.

Yesterday it was the department of Enrique Ruiz Escudero that tried to reduce this gap by announcing that starting this Monday, January 30,

"a pilot project" will be launched to manage the schedules of toilets

more efficiently and try to improve their conditions. with the patients.

Specifically, as detailed by the person in charge of Health, with the new system, which

will reach 22 health centers and will be implemented in the rest until the end of the year

, family doctors will have 10 minutes per patient and will attend 34 in their workday.

In the case of pediatricians, the time will amount to 15 minutes and visits to 24 children.

And, from that quota, Escudero said, "a bag will be generated in each center to resolve possible excess demand and those professionals who want to care for more patients will be paid."

This supplement will be 200 euros and may not exceed four extra hours.

From the strike committee, headed by Amyts, they assured that "this is an important demand" from the doctors and that they

welcome the announcement of the counselor "with prudence and some skepticism"

because Health had already given January 11 and 18 as dates. to start it, indicated Ángela Hernández, general secretary of the union.

However, Ruiz Escudero

reaffirmed that from Monday there will be eight centers in the city of Madrid that will already apply it

: Las Calesas, San Cristóbal, Potes, Argüelles, El Pardo, Los Alpes, Buenos Aires and Entrevías.

In Torrejón de Ardoz, Brújula and Fronteras will be put into operation;

in Getafe, in Sector III, Juan de la Cierva and Perales del Río;

in Parla, in Painters;

in Alcorcón, in Doctor Trueta;

in Fuenlabrada, in France;

in Móstoles, on Dos de Mayo;

in Pozuelo, in Las Rozas and Somosaguas, and also in the centers of Algete, Miraflores and Torrelodones.

In addition, "to unload the Primary", Escudero announced yesterday that the regional government will start another pilot project so that hospitals can process discharges with specific diagnostic tests without having to go through the health center.

And it will be put into operation at the Puerta de Hierro, in Majadahonda, and the Ramón y Cajal, in the capital

.

Despite this progress, the positions between the parties continue to be far apart due to the issue of volunteers and the linear increase in salary requested by doctors.

From Amyts, they pointed out that these news are "a patch."

"

What is desirable is that we stop losing professionals and become attractive again

so that all Madrid residents have a family doctor and a pediatrician assigned to them," Hernández stressed.

However, the Minister of Health pointed out that this wage increase will not occur in a linear manner because "it was not one of the demands at the start of the strike" and these demands "go beyond the agreements reached in other communities."

"

The strike would have ended in its first meeting with the conditions of Extremadura, Aragon, Cantabria and Andalusia

," added Escudero.

In addition, the proposal that there be a mediation team on the side of the toilets and that the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, also be involved in the negotiations, launched by the doctors either have been accepted from the regional government.

In fact,

Ruiz Escudero insisted yesterday that his Ministry "determines who are the right people" to sit at the table.

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