Santander, (EFE).- The professionals of the Cantabria Primary Care Emergency Services have toured Santander this Tuesday to protest the situation of “overexertion” of this health group.
This march is called days before the strike that the CSIF union has raised, for eight non-consecutive days of the month of May, starting on Saturday the 13th.
In the demonstration this Tuesday, the CSIF has assured EFE that it will not call off the strike if the Ministry of Health does not “guarantee” the granting of permits and vacations or the health personnel are “compensated” for the “overexertion”.
“We will go on strike”
“If we have to go on strike, we will get there,” warns the president of CSIF, Marga Ferreras, who has gathered with the SUAP professionals at the door of the Ministry of Health, in Santander.
However, the CSIF sees “room for negotiation” before Saturday, the first day of a strike also called for May 14, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26 and 27.
The union is “waiting” for a meeting with the Ministry, because the proposed proposal “does not meet the minimum expectations.”
Permits: a red line
“There is a red line: the guarantee of the granting of permits and vacations and that is not covered,” a doctor who is a member of the strike committee told EFE.
The union appreciates that in the Health position “there has been progress, but very superficial”, and stresses that its main demand is that these permits be “guaranteed” “or that there be compensation” for the overexertion.
“They have reiterated to us on numerous occasions that there will be no vacation permit granted because there is a shortage of health personnel. We want to solve that fundamentally ”, he has claimed.
The union hopes to be able to close an agreement before Thursday, to present it at the assembly called for that day at the College of Physicians and to be able to call off the strike.
“There is a guarantee of rest”
Regarding this last offer, the manager of the SCS, Rafael Sotoca, assures that it “includes the guarantee of vacation rest” or the resolution of “day-to-day” problems such as the renewal of staff clothing or the improvement of the remote connection to Internet.
“We continue to bet on the agreement,” Sotoca has defended, who has opined that these proposals are a “base” for the agreement.
“Maintaining a schedule of mobilizations and strikes does not correspond to the situation of dialogue,” he assured.