Seville, (EFE).- The Andalusian Medical Union (SMA) has assured this Wednesday that it does not believe in the will of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) to close an agreement on the agendas in primary care and has warned that it will maintain the mobilizations until their demands are satisfied.
Coinciding with the fourth day of the twelve-hour strike that they hold every Wednesday, the president of the union, Rafael Carrasco, has once again denounced the breach by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) of the agreement reached between both parties on 25 January on the limitation of physicians’ agendas.
An hour before holding a concentration that will end in the San Telmo Palace, headquarters of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, the union representatives have lamented that the “negligence due to the lack of compliance with the agreement” is added to “the most incomprehensible ” which turns out that doctors are being asked to “resign” from said agreement.
According to Carrasco, doctors are being offered a letter to “dissuade” them from giving up the agreement on the agendas, consisting of limiting the number of patients in health centers to 25 for pediatricians, to 35 for family doctors and what exceed passing to a continuity in the afternoon with limits of 18 and 25 patients, respectively.
a form of coercion
“We want to make it clear that in no case have the writings in which they urge to renounce the agreement been agreed with the Andalusian Medical Union and we made this known to the SAS last week during the strike committee meeting,” said Carrasco. , who has revealed that the health administration promised to withdraw these documents.
In the same way, he explained that they asked the SAS that, in addition, the documents signed by the doctors “be left without effect”, since they constitute “a form of coercion”.
After insisting that it is “unacceptable” that it takes three months to apply an agreement reached and yet biased writings are sent absolutely quickly”, for which he has trusted that “on this occasion” the SAS will comply with its commitment and the documents “become null and void”.
This is not the only reason why the SMA doubts the health administration’s willingness to agree, but there are also letters from different areas announcing that the agreement will not apply during holiday periods “not only for the summer, nor in health centers with four or less physicians, which in practice is equivalent to saying that it will be applied in a minimum percentage”.
The SMA also calls for salary equalization with hospital doctors, an end to employment and pay discrimination for professionals in the Primary Care Emergency Service (SUAP), and pay equalization with the rest of the autonomous communities, updating of positions that are difficult to fill, among others. EFE