The Senate will disapprove Mónica García for her management of the reform of the Framework Statute – the law that regulates the working conditions of professionals who work in the health sector – which led to three medical strikes (one now takes place for four consecutive days) … and another called by the unions for January in which they call on all health personnel to stop. The PP has tabled in the Upper House, where it has an absolute majority, a motion in which it will disapprove the head of the ministry “for his incompetence at the head of the ministry and for his partisan and sectarian use of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System”.
The motion will be debated next Tuesday and highlights the “lack of dialogue” of Mónica García, “which has dynamited any possibility of negotiation and, due to her lack of sensitivity, her lack of respect and her absolute contempt towards our health professionals”, says Alicia García, spokesperson for the PP in the Senate.
The most popular allude to the doctors’ strike that is taking place these days throughout Spain due to dissatisfaction with the Framework Statute proposed by Health. The PP emphasizes that “the paralysis of the process of developing the Framework Statute demonstrates the lack of dialogue and the rigidity of the ministry led by Mónica García”. All the proposals made by the minister, they say, were rejected by professionals. “He was unable and unwilling to respond to the requests made by health professionals,” says the PP spokesperson in the Upper House.
The initiative recalls that the autonomous communities governed by the PP demanded that the ministry withdraw its proposal and begin the reform “from scratch” and “truly agreed through dialogue”. Alicia García emphasizes that it is the autonomy that “must implement this Framework Statute, and the framework retains the title only because it is integrated into matters already developed by the communities and, of course, neither the minister nor the government agrees with them”.
“A refusal by the Ministry of Health of the approach adopted by the autonomous communities would only aggravate the existing frontal confrontation with professionals, increasing their frustration, as well as the negative impact of their strikes on the care activity for patients throughout the SNS,” says Alicia García. Mónica García’s proposal, the popular insist, is “sectarian” and is “very far” from improving the conditions of professionals.
A new proposal
This is why the PP demands that Health withdraw its proposal for a Framework Statute and convene the Framework Forum for Social Dialogue to develop a new project based “on a real consensus with the aforementioned health professionals and the autonomous communities”.
Likewise, the people demand that the ministry present technical, legal and economic reports that justify the modifications proposed by the Framework Statute, as well as guarantee realistic financing for each of them.
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