• Primary care A month of health strike: doctors and Ministry resume dialogue

The Amyts and AFEM unions have called

a two-day strike of doctors

in the field of hospital care of the Madrid Health Service (Sermas)

this Wednesday, March 1 and tomorrow, Thursday, March 2

, due to the refusal of the

Ministry of Health

to open Negotiations to solve the labor problems of professionals.

In this way,

the conflict in Madrid's health system extends to hospitals in the region

while the indefinite strike of family doctors and pediatricians in Primary Care continues, promoted by the Amyts union since November 21, to

demand a minimum of ten minutes per patient

, a limitation of the schedules and an improvement in the working conditions of the professionals to avoid their flight to other regions or countries.

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Today,

Primary Care doctors and hospitals

are called upon to support a new demonstration, promoted by Amyts, which

will tour the center of Madrid from Calle de Sagasta,

where the Sermas Human Resources headquarters is located, to Puerta del Sol, in defense of the medical profession.

In statements to EFE, Dr. Daniel Bernabéu, from Amyts, explained that these two days of strike by

hospital care

doctors come after having

sent letters to the Ministry of Health on February 3

with the aim of opening a negotiating table to deal with "a series of demands that have been on the table for many years and that have not been adequately addressed or resolved".

"After three months of not addressing the demands of the

Primary Care

colleagues and the fact that the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, has not met with them at any time, we had to make the population aware that the situation

in hospitals

is not good", indicated Bernabéu.

"We have felt that the Ministry has used us as a throwing weapon to exculpate itself and

present our colleagues in Primary Care as responsible and guilty

of some mobilizations and a disorder in the Madrid health system that is in good health and has excellent hospitals," he said. pointed out the representative of Amyts.

In Bernabéu's opinion, "the excellence of hospitals is true, but it is based on the

overload of professionals and salaries that are far from the Spanish average

and the European average."

The

Ministry of Health

has established

minimum services that do not exceed 35%

for the

two days of strike

by doctors from the Sermas hospitals, with the disagreement of the calling unions who understand that "the right to strike is violated

"

.

The strike, which takes place

from eight in the morning this Wednesday until the same time on Friday, March 3,

affects the statutory, labor and official specialist medical staff who provide services in the hospitals attached to the Madrid Health Service, the Alcorcón Foundation University Hospital, the Fuenlabrada University Hospital and the Central Radiodiagnostic Unit.

Among the

demands of the strike,

the implementation of the

35-hour day

in the Community of Madrid stands out, in line with other autonomies, and the end of the "theft" of 222 euros from the guards of the doctors every month, for the peculiar application of the 37.5 working day in the medical community in Madrid hospitals.

They also request an improvement in the conditions in which the guards are carried out, because they have a high degree of hardship, now they are very complicated, they are paid at prices agreed thirty years ago, on many occasions, they make it difficult to rest and force them to complete exhausting

days a week between guards and the ordinary day.

Given the high

rate of temporary employment in hospitals, which is close to 52%

, another of the demands of the strike is the withdrawal of the Public Offer of Employment (OPE) 2018-2019, the release of its 3,575 positions and its transition to competition of merits.

Other requests are the activation of transfer competitions for

medical specialists

in the hospital field prior to each Public Offer of Employment and the improvement of their remuneration.

Bernabéu has expressed its wish

that the Ministry of Health promote the opening of a negotiation table

to solve the problems of doctors in the hospital environment to offer quality health care, meeting the expectations of politicians, citizens and professionals.

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