Madrid, Feb 1 (EFE)
The eighth meeting of the Amyts union and the health authorities of the Community of Madrid has ended without an agreement, which is why the indefinite strike of Family doctors and primary care pediatricians that began on November 21 continues.
Both parties have analyzed for four hours the implementation last Monday of the pilot plan to limit the summons agendas.
The general secretary of the union, Ángela Hernández, has expressed the “doubts” of the strike committee about the implementation of this pilot plan in twenty-two health centers in the region, whose objective is that family doctors have ten minutes per patient and up to a maximum of 34 patients, while pediatricians will have fifteen minutes to attend a maximum of 24 children.
Hernández has asked the Administration to clarify in which spaces the plan is going to be developed and when it is going to be extended to all of Primary Care to alleviate the “overload” of the professionals, but there has been no response.
For its part, Navarra today experienced its first day of strike called by the Navarra Medical Union (SMN), made up of some 2,200 professionals and which has requested modifications to the latest offer from the Provincial Government Health Department, a proposal that the Administration itself has described as “generous” and that it has announced that it does not intend to change.
The SMN Primary Care member, Juan Ramón Sanchiz, has stated that if the Government of Navarra does not improve its offer, “the positions are not going to come close” and the hope of an agreement is diluted.
The Navarrese Administration figures the monitoring of the first day of the strike at 9.27% (with 203 professionals out of the 2,193 staff), and maintains that “a certain normality is perceived in the service, within the context of the strike.”
Tomorrow, the negotiations between the parties will continue, when the rest of the unions, whose demands are different, plan to announce upcoming mobilizations.
In Andalusia, the Junta reached an agreement with the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA), but CCOO, CSIF and UGT have called concentrations for this Thursday in front of health centers because they do not share the conditions established in that agreement.
In a statement, they have denounced that the Andalusian administration does not report on the agreement with the SMA, “based on an alleged reduction in the schedules of family doctors and pediatricians in the morning.”
According to the conveners, said agreement establishes “more work in the afternoon with appointments for 4 or 5 hours, while the mornings will continue with parallel agendas to cover absent colleagues who are not replaced, answer the phone, home emergencies and those derived from the first reception consultation.