STRIKE IN ANDALUSIAN HEALTH

Health professionals from numerous health centers and hospitals in the province of Cordova This Thursday they joined thestrike called by the unionsCCOO, Satse, CSIFand UGTin all centers of the SASbetween 8:00 and 11:00, where they have gathered, displaying banners with their demands, including the demand for compliance with the Primary Care and Professional Career agreements, the consolidation and increase of staff and the updating of the Employment Exchange. Temporary from the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) without cut-off marks”.

The four convening union organizations They have qualified as “resounding success” the day of strike against what they consider the “dismantling of public health.” Thus, they have stressed that in “numerous” Primary Care centers “one hundred percent follow-up of strikes has been achieved and in hospitals participation has been above 60%.” These figures have been denied by the Junta of Andalusiawhich he has encrypted in a 3.17% unemployment follow-up in the province of Córdoba. Health has shown its “understanding and respect” for the concerns that have led to the health strike, but has made a appeal to unions to “resume the dialogue and continue working together”, with the objective of “strengthening and improving the public health system, thus guaranteeing quality and accessible care for all citizens.” “We are committed to activating work tables where they can discuss and reach a consensus the necessary measures to respond to the demands of the health sector,” he highlighted.

In Genil BridgeThe health personnel have had the support of the Puente Genil platform for your Health, whose spokespersons have gone to the doors of the high-resolution hospital to show their support.

Angela Morenounion representative of Satse, explained that the mobilization “is a trying to be heard and that they see that we do not agree with everything they are doing with us because, effectively, we see our hospital in danger, “The operating room has been closed, the outpatient clinics are not working, there are no specialists and health has to be the order of the day, people get sick and they cannot wait for an operating room to open.”

Regarding the lack of specialists, the union delegate stated that “many queries they are staying Uncoveredand many things are being sent to the private sector.” “A colonoscopy cannot wait four months for a digestive to be seen because there may be a problem,” he explained. Finally, and asked about the meeting that the unions held a few days ago with the mayor, Sergio VelascoMoreno stated that “he had other data that were not really true, he thought that the operating room was not going to close and that it was working at 100%, which is not the case, since we have all the information from all the reports and from all the operating rooms that have been there in recent months, and that has nothing to do with the surgical activity that has always taken place, something that he was unaware of.” “He also did not know about the waiting list for cataracts that there is in this hospital, he had some data, which I imagine was given to him by management or we do not know who, that do not correspond to reality,” he concluded.

In Goat

About a hundred workers of the Infanta Margarita hospital of Goatand citizens have gathered at the doors of the health center demanding that the autonomous Administration compliance with the agreement of Primary Care and Professional Career, the consolidation and increase of staff or the updating of the SAS temporary employment pool without cut-off marks.

A concentration where a reading has been given manifesto in defense of professional dignity and the public health system, showing absolute disagreement with the health policies applied by the Ministry of Health in health centers and services.

More than 3,000 signatures in Palma del Río

At the rally held in Palm RiverThe platform that called it in support of this strike call has defended that the reasons “are more than evident”, while the calling unions highlight the “lack of personnel, replacements, eventual dismissals, abandonment of the regional stock market, constant and repeated failures to comply with labor and healthcare improvements”.

The Platform in Defense of Public Health of Palma del Río and the Region has already been collected more than 3,000 signatures with a demand table that includes the expansion of the medical staff and health personnel, improvement and increase in staffing in the ambulance service, opening and staffing of the Emergency Service of the Hospital in the city of La Guadalquivir Valleyas well as the recovery and opening of new services and specialties in the hospital center, also adequate planning to cover sick leave and absences of health personnel and, finally, showing support for the demands for work improvements of health personnel.

In Priegoabout fifteen professionals from the Andalusian Health Service, including nurses and several doctors who provide their services in the Basic Health Zone, of which they are part Almedinilla, oxcarb, Tojar Fountain and Priego, have supported the strike called by the unions. Supporting the demands of the health professionals was the mayor of Carcabuey, Juan Miguel Sánchezand the deputy mayor of the Carcabulense Consistory, Lucia Sanchez.

In Source Carreteros The concentration at the doors of the health center has been promoted by the Neighborhood Association and has also been attended by the mayor of Palmera Fountain, Francisco Javier Ruizand several members of his government team, as well as the councilor of UIof the Fuente Carreteros City Council, Rafael Galan.

The organizers denounce that from January 1 to April 30 they have already suffered cuts in the office with 24 days sharing a doctor with other centers, thus reducing consultation hours, and they fear that the situation will worsen starting next July 1. On the other hand, this road group has joined the region’s Public Health Defense Platform.