The health conflict in the Community of Madrid, far from being quelled, continues to escalate with the budding Primary Care strike and with the unions also extending it to hospitals.
Because Amyts, the majority representative of the doctors,
has called a two-day strike for hospital doctors on March 1 and 2
due to the "refusal" of the Ministry of Health to address the negotiations requested by the union.
As they say in Amyts, the call for a strike occurs because "in recent weeks and on several occasions"
the union has requested a schedule of meetings with the regional government to address the problems of hospital doctors
.
"There has been no call by the Administration," they say in a statement.
Among the demands put forward by the union is to implement the 35-hour day as is done in other autonomous communities, in the Community of Madrid, put an end to 24-hour guards, free up 3,575 places on public job offers 2018-2019,
increase bonuses for guards to 30 euros on weekdays and 35 on weekends
, improve fixed salaries and recover 100% of extra payments.
A situation that occurs in a favorable context for the medical unions since last Sunday, according to figures from the Government Delegation, 250,000 people took to the streets of the capital to demand public health and the Primary Care strike continues to which began in November due to the new plan for extra-hospital emergencies.
Protests in some hospitals had already occurred in isolated cases in recent weeks, especially in emergency services.
One of the most paradigmatic cases is that of the Infanta Sofía Hospital, in Alcobendas, where professionals assure that the service is overwhelmed by the loss of doctors who have suffered.
But they have also occurred in the Hospital de La Paz or in the Infanta Leonor.
From the Community of Madrid they frame this type of protest within "a political campaign" that coincides with the elections of May 28.
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