Pamplona (EFE).- The Minister of Health of the Government of Navarra, Santos Induráin, has made this Friday a “very positive” assessment of the proposed law to improve the working conditions of health personnel and has trusted that there will be a ” broad consensus” around it.
Induráin, who has signed a collaboration agreement with his counterpart from the Government of Aragon, has assured in a press conference that with this legal initiative “we are very close to a broad political, union and professional agreement”.
It is, he stated, an initiative that “has come from the Department of Health”, but in which political groups, unions and professionals have come together. “Of course it is a reason for optimism, satisfaction,” she said.
The counselor has considered that the presentation of this proposal “means thinking that we can end this legislature with an important package of measures to reinforce the public health system in general and Primary Care in particular”.
“We hope that one hundred percent support will be reconciled,” declared Induráin, who opined that “there are conditions for a broad consensus.”
In the bill presented by PSN, Geroa Bai, EH Bildu, Podemos and IE, he commented, there are economic measures, but “there are also other types of measures that are very important for improving the service to citizens, such as the organizational measures”.
“They are measures in a transversal way for all the professionals of the health system. There are some that are for doctors, but there are others that are also for other groups” such as nursing professionals, assistants, administrators or orderlies, “both in Primary Care and hospital care and in all territories”.
Negotiation of “effort” with the inter-union
Regarding the meeting scheduled for next Tuesday with the Health Inter-union, calling for a day of strike for January 23, the counselor stressed that “of course a negotiating effort is being made by both parties which is very important”.
“I am confident that all these conflicts that are being raised are being redirected” and that “possible agreements and solutions are emerging that are taking place in all areas” of health, he said.
The Intersindical de Salud has also described as “ambiguous” the section of the bill referring to the professional career.
In this regard, Induráin recalled that this year’s Foral Budget Law includes the recognition of the professional career at levels A and B hired retroactively, and includes a commitment to work with the unions within a framework of Budgetary availability for the rest of health professionals who do not have it recognized.
The novelty included in this proposed law, which has been a request from the union organizations, he added, “is that throughout 2023 the extension will also be worked on for the rest of the professionals” who do not have a recognized professional career.