SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 21. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Common Deputy, Rafael Yanes, and the second deputy of the Common Provincial Council, Milagros Fuentes, have met with Sunil Lakhwani, specialist in Hematology, and Dácil García, specialist in infectious diseases at the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) and also members of the Confluence Table of Doctors and Specialist Physicians of the Canary Islands Area.
Both denounced an abuse of successive temporary hiring in the Canarian public health system and urgently asked to define the offer of places and the characteristics of the consolidation processes for the group contemplated in Law 20/2021, of December 28, on urgent measures to the reduction of temporary employment in public employment.
This table, which includes area specialists from all Canarian hospitals, with the exception of Lanzarote, was born on the occasion of the publication of the OPE call for November 2019, in the face of “the most absolute abandonment of our rights and where a large part of the abused would be left out of a stabilization of their position, causing a greater mismatch of templates,” they said.
They denounced that in the last twenty years hospital doctors and specialists have only opted for the 2007 exam as the only way to consolidate their positions, in addition to pointing out a gap in the organic templates, in which there is a large percentage of temporary temporary workers who have been carrying out structural tasks in the services for years.
“We are, by far, the Autonomous Community with the highest rate of temporary employment in Spain, with approximately 65%, while the rest of the communities are around 30%”, as they stated.
In this regard, they also highlighted the “super-specialized” nature of their activities and affirmed that an open competitive exam is a tool that does not take into account knowledge and experience in an area as specific as that of the specialty. Thus, they warned of the serious consequences for patient care that would be brought about by the “dismantling” of the different hospital services due to a broad change in their area specialist personnel.
The group pointed out that they had informed the Government of the Canary Islands of this whole situation, “but we have not received a response from them.” For this reason, they asked the Deputy of the Common for their mediation in order to obtain a response from this body, as well as to be able to meet with the Ministry of Health and its technical team to address this problem.
Yanes expressed his concern about the stabilization processes and the end of temporary employment in public employment in the Autonomous Community: “We will communicate the requests of this group to the Ministry of Health, and we will urge the Government of the Canary Islands to rule on this matter , which is affecting a large percentage of health professionals on our islands”.
