While the fourth day of the doctors’ strike against the Framework Statute prepared by the Ministry of Health takes place, the advisors of the branch of the autonomous communities meet this Friday with Mónica García within the framework of the Interterritorial Council of the National System … of Health. And even if this is not on the agenda, health officials in the autonomies governed by the PP will demand that the minister withdraw her bill to reform the law.
The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fátima Matute, representing her counterparts from the rest of the popular autonomies, assured before the meeting that no autonomous community, regardless of its political color, agreed with the draft Framework Statute proposed by García, so that They demand its removal. The minister, Matute asserts, “has succeeded in upsetting the system with the strike that we are experiencing and which will be indefinite for all professional categories.” The doctors’ strike, insisted the Madrid official, “affects the population and we cannot tolerate it.”
They also demand that the Minister of Health starting reform from scratch of the Framework Statute, since the current one, shared by the regional advisors, is “anchored in the past”. According to him, the ministry should start by negotiating a text with the autonomous communities, as well as agreeing on different aspects with the Ministry of Civil Service, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labor. “And let her start doing things right, because she will be a minister her colleagues will remember.” like a traitor by her professional colleagues and as a coward now pointing out others as guilty of this Framework Statute,” Matute said.
Payment of guards
The Minister of Health of Madrid thus refers to the words that Mónica García spoke to the media a few minutes earlier, in which she assured that the requirements of doctors who fall within the competence of her ministry are included in the latest draft of the Framework Statute, with the exception of that which concerns the fact that doctors have their own standard, that his department excludes “because it would leave out the rest of the professionals”. But the minister insisted she could not regulate issues related to wagessuch as remuneration for on-call hours, transfer of responsibility to independent workers.
“There are certain requests that are not attributed to us “These are requests that only the autonomous communities can have the key to solving,” reiterated the minister. One of the main demands of doctors is that on-call hours should not be paid below normal hours, as is currently the case. Although in one of the previous versions of the text prepared by Health there was a point in which this remuneration was established, in later versions this reference has disappeared. “We will continue the dialogue with open arms to finally reach a text of agreement and consensus, because it would be a waste of opportunity if this remained in a drawer and we would end up with a text that has caused discomfort and mistreatment towards professionals,” said Mónica García.
The meeting takes place in the middle of a strike by doctors, involved since Tuesday in a strike against the Framework Statute, which is the law which regulates the working conditions of professionals in the health system. Furthermore, the unions with which the ministry is negotiating the text (UGT, CCOO, CSIF, Satse and CIG-Saúde) also called for a strike. every Tuesday from January 27 in which they call on all public health personnel to participate. Health will meet with them next week to try to stop the mobilizations.
In the same sense, the PP registered this Friday in Congress a non-law proposal in which it demands that the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, to withdraw the current framework status proposal. The popular will also present motions in town halls and autonomous communities throughout Spain and will request the appearance of the minister to give explanations “on the chaos caused”.
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