Logroño, (EFE).- La Rioja has experienced a day of strike by Primary Care doctors and paediatricians, called by CSIF, to demand that they go from caring for between 60 and 70 patients a day to between 30 and 35 and that there be “remuneration fair measures that do not make the compañeros from this region emigrate to other neighboring communities”.
This was stated by the person in charge of Health of CSIF La Rioja, Ángel Laspeñas, in an informative meeting during the concentration held on the occasion of this strike at the gates of the Gonzalo de Berceo Health Center in Logroño, in which some 40 people have participated .
This concentration has been led by a large banner, which read “Dignified and quality Primary Care”, along with other posters carried by its participants with requests such as “Dignified Primary Care for all” and “More medicine”.
Phrases such as “More medicine, less bureaucracy” and “Precise and necessary Primary Care” have also been chanted.
Laspeñas has denounced that “it has not been possible to talk about these demands with the public Administration”, before what CSIF has found as the “only formula” to raise this day of strike.
reduce bureaucracy
“Other measures are aimed at reducing bureaucracy, because we are buried daily among papers that do not allow us to do more things,” he pointed out, as well as that “there be adequate remuneration that does not make our colleagues from La Rioja emigrate to other neighboring communities in search of better working conditions and better pay”.
He has stressed that the current acting La Rioja government (PSOE-Podemos) “can make decisions and has time to talk” with this union, that “the first day the new Executive (PP) is formed, of course it will ask a meeting and will present the same demands”.
Regarding the continuation of the strike and the possibility of adopting other measures, he has expressed that “we have everything open” to achieve “in one way or another” that his demands are met.
The day will end this afternoon with a rally at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in La Rioja, with the motto “For dignified and quality work.”