The doctors’ strike, called for the next four consecutive days, to protest against the draft Framework Statute, the law that regulates the working conditions of health personnel, prepared by the Ministry of Health, reached the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba. A … 70% trackingaccording to data from the Andalusian Medical Union of Cordoba (SMA).
According to the organization’s data, 400 doctors supported the work stoppage in the province’s largest hospital complex. Of which, 222 are residents and 178 doctors associated with Reina Sofía. According to the SMA, they seem “satisfied”. by the workers’ response to a situation they called “limits.”
They denounce an “overload of work” and claim to have tried to negotiate “until the last moment”, but to have finally been “forced” to resort to a strike. Last week, after meeting the Ministry of HealthThe National Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) and the SMA decided to continue the strike due to the “insufficient” changes that Mónica García’s department proposed to make in its draft Framework Statute.
The Medical Union of Córdoba assured that “despite the limitations imposed, the surveillance in Córdoba can be described as very significant.” They highlight 70% participation in hospitals and among 40 or 50% for primary care,
“These figures confirm what we have been denouncing for years: the profession is not only fed up, but exhausted. The difference between hospital and primary care is historic in all medical strikes: minimums in primary care are higher and the close doctor-patient relationship is more important when it comes to supporting the strike,” they said.
For the union, “the data on participation represents a success and a hit on the table that the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities must know how to interpret. Our conflict is not political, it is professional. “We, doctors, demand decent working conditions, consistent with the technical and human responsibility that we assume.”
Even if they understand that “this strike may cause inconvenience, urgent and non-delayable services are guaranteed. And yet, it must be said clearly: these inconveniences are insignificant compared to the damage “which will cause the health collapse towards which we are moving at cruising speed.”
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For its part, the Junta de Andalucía assesses the follow-up of the strike of Andalusian doctors against the Framework Statute of the Government in the province of Córdoba at 27%. He Minister of Health, Presidency and Emergency of the Government of Andalusia, Antonio Sanzwarned of the “very significant impact” this four-day strike will have on surgical and diagnostic waiting lists.
In statements to the media, Sanz detailed the monitoring of the first day of strike by province. Thus, in Almería it was 30.31%; in Cádiz, 33.93%; in Córdoba, 27%; in Granada, 32.16%; in Huelva, 35.68%; in Jaén, 21.52%; in Malaga, 32.33% and in Seville, 36.74%.
The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has established minimum services that involve the guarantee of health activity such as that provided during holidays in primary care (health centers) and hospitals.
In case of emergency, intensive care and deliveries “at a minimum” and the typical activity of a Sunday or public holiday. Likewise, the SAS establishes that 100% of services that “usually are provided on a Sunday or public holiday» and that “100% of urgent diagnostic tests and activities carried out on a Sunday or public holiday must be guaranteed. »
As a “common criterion”, both in primary care and in hospitals, “treatment must be guaranteed to patients affected by processes who, due to their morbidity, require immediate assistance, without breaking the continuity of care”. Specifically, in health centers where there is a SUAP (emergency service), and in which the hours of assistance coincide, “there will be no minimum service given that the emergency activity of the center will be covered by the SUAP, as is the case on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays”.
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