Oviedo (EFE) – The Sicepa-Usipa unions have described this Wednesday as “successful” the monitoring of doctors and nurses of the first of the two days of strike that began today, at 8:00 a.m., called in the Asturian health by these independent health organizations.
For its part, the Health Service of the Principality of Asturias (Sespa) has estimated that 4.93 percent of doctors and 1.02 percent of nurses monitor the professionals called for unemployment.
The call is addressed to primary care professionals, hospital emergency medical staff and the Continuous Care Service (SAC) have supported the strike.
In statements to EFE, the coordinator of Usipa in Asturias, Graciela Martínez Barbero, has pointed out that the last proposal transferred this Wednesday by Sespa “has not been enough” to call off the 48-hour strike, which ends next Friday, to 8:00 a.m.
Barbero has affirmed that they have been “surprised” by the high follow-up of the strike by health professionals, although he has not offered follow-up data.
In addition, the representative of these independent organizations that a few weeks ago did not sign the improvement agreement reached between the Health Service and the SIMPA, SATSE, UGT, CCOO and CSIF unions, has criticized the minimum services approved by Sespa, since, as he stressed, “they are not real” since they are made on the organic templates that are now decimated.
In this sense, he has pointed out that a service can have an organic staff of ten workers, when it really only has eight effective workers, and a minimum service of seven is set.
Sespa guarantees the right to assistance
For its part, Sespa has stressed that it guarantees the right to healthcare for citizens with minimum services agreed on Thursday with the strike committee
The aim of the strike is to force negotiations on several “transcendental points”, including an extraordinary process of professional career, the reduction of patient schedules and the establishment of a quota for nursing.
Among other points, it also calls for full salary equalization for SAC nursing staff or the establishment of compensation for travel and diets and hardship supplements.
For her part, the number two of the PP in the candidacy for the elections to the Presidency of the Principality, Pilar Fernández Pardo, has warned that “the Asturian health system highlights Barbón’s incompetence to govern” in the face of the health strike. EFE
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