– CESM CANARIAS – Archive
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The CESM Canarias union has announced this Friday that it is joining the national ‘STOP FUNCIONA’ initiative, which means that doctors will cease to provide extraordinary services, commonly known as ‘peonadas’, from next Monday.
This measure includes the suspension of special programmes, voluntary extensions of working hours, extraordinary activities, and any other assistive work carried out outside regular hours, which depends solely on the willingness of the doctors.
CESM CANARIAS reminds in a statement that a significant part of the assistive activity currently reducing waiting lists, maintaining certain care pathways, and sustaining the public hospitals’ response capacity relies on the voluntary commitment of doctors, beyond their contractual obligations.
It also notes that other services and hospitals are still finalising their internal processes and are expected to announce their participation in the coming days, meaning this list will continue to grow.
The medical organisation criticises the lack of concrete measures, written proposals, and a realistic negotiation timetable to address the structural issues faced by the medical profession in the Canary Islands, despite the “repeated commitments” from the management of the Servicio Canario de la Salud to consider the proposals made by the union, the only one present at the Health Sectoral Table.
SALARY INCREASE AND IMPROVEMENT OF ON-CALL CONDITIONS
Among the main demands of this collective are improvements in salary conditions, the fulfilment of previously signed agreements, the alignment of medical staff levels with the actual needs of the healthcare system, enhancements to on-call and rest conditions, as well as professional recognition of the unique responsibilities undertaken by doctors.
“Doctors have demonstrated our willingness to engage in dialogue and our responsibility to patients for months. However, we can no longer indefinitely support the structural shortcomings of the healthcare system through voluntary effort while waiting for concrete responses from the administration,” comments CESM Canarias.
The organisation insists that the suspension of voluntary activities is a “legitimate, proportional, and reversible” measure, aimed at opening a genuine negotiation with the SCS to achieve concrete agreements for improving working conditions for doctors, ensuring the future sustainability of healthcare in the Canary Islands, and securing a specific statute for the medical profession at a national level.
Consequently, it holds that the President of the Canary Islands Government, Fernando Clavijo; the Health Minister, Esther Monzón; and the Director of the Servicio Canario de la Salud, Adasat Goya, must take responsibility for all the “negative consequences” for the Canarian population stemming from the lack of an “urgent” agreement in the archipelago.
So far, the cessation of these activities has been communicated in all four hospitals of the capital islands and in the Radiology service of the Doctor Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote.
