Pamplona (EFE).- The Department of Health of the Provincial Government and the Medical Union of Navarra (SMN) have intensified contacts to try to reach an agreement on the working conditions of these professionals that put an end to the indefinite strike that began on past February 1.
The general secretary of the SMN, Alberto Pérez, has told EFE that this Friday they are working on a proposal to improve working conditions that they will deliver to the Department of Health.
To date, in terms of remuneration, the Government of Navarra has offered a salary increase of 400 euros per month and the SMN requests 500 for this year and another 500 for the next, and to reduce the work overload, MIR and Attention hires are being proposed Primary reduce to 32 daily consultations with 12 minutes per patient, something that according to the union does not reduce waiting lists.
In addition, Health is open to eliminating exclusivity but maintaining incompatibility, which makes it impossible to open consultations in private health, a proposal for the union “totally discriminatory with respect to the rest of doctors in Spain.”
Pérez has assured that, if the Government of Navarra finds the new proposal of the SMN interesting, the union will take it to the assemblies of doctors on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to “see if our colleagues accept it and it could be the beginning of the closing strike.
“We are at least trying, it will not be for us,” he declared.
The Government calculates a 6.84% follow-up of the strike
This Friday, 6.84% of the doctors of the Navarro Health Service-Osasunbidea (SNS-O) have supported the third day of strike, a total of 149 professionals out of the 2,177 that make up the morning shift staff.
According to the data provided by the Provincial Government, by health areas Pamplona is, with 111 professionals on strike out of 1,707 (6.5%), the one with the lowest percentage incidence registered, followed by Tudela, with 14 professionals out of 192 (7. 29%), and Estella, with 11 of 123 (8.94%).
In Primary Care, the participation was 9.43%, with 56 professionals who have supported the strike of a workforce of 594, while in Hospital Care, 93 professionals out of the 1,549 called (6%) have joined the strike.
