The Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez, estimated at 1,200 the number of surgical procedures suspended due to the doctors’ strike in Castilla y León. during the four days, although he warned that “today’s data is lacking”, it was then that the … strikes called in health centers of the Junta de Castilla y León by the CESM medical union, as part of a national appeal.
In statements to the media during his visit to the new Federico García Lorca-El Silo health center in Burgos, Vázquez said he “absolutely respects” the right to strike, in this case of doctors and all professionals, but he also warned that “this affects patients.”
Thus, he affirmed that it is “a significant impact on patients who are waiting to intervene” and that it represents “a significant percentage” since “we are talking about about 25 percent of doctors on strike”, and therefore, “25 percent of the staff is a significant percentage”.
Doctors from across the country have been called for help since last Tuesday, four consecutive days of break against the framework statute of the Ministry of Health and to demand one which recognizes their particularities. Among other issues, they demand a status and a field of negotiation for doctors, different from those of the rest of the professionals in the national health system, as well as an adequate professional classification, a regulation of the working day that guarantees their rest and their balance between work and private life, as well as that on-call work is taken into account for retirements.
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