SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep. 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The strike committee of the Temporary Doctors Union of the Canary Islands announced this Monday that they will resume the informative assemblies in the face of a conflictive autumn due to the “inaction” of the regional government to respond to their demands.
In a statement, the group considers itself “fed up” with the ‘Pact of Las Flores’ due to its “very little concern” for the job stability of the workers, a fact that is exemplified by the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo.
The doctors question the “complete and total indifference” of the Government with this problem “and the consequence that citizens must expect is the accelerated deterioration of Canarian health to which the four-party government led by the PSOE is leading us.”
The doctors recall that the “huge problem of precariousness” in the hiring of doctors and practitioners of the Canary Islands public health system starts with the “indolence” of all the governments (current and previous) of the archipelago, “which since 2002 to 2022, they have not called more than one OPE”.
Along these lines, they insist that the workers’ right “has been broken” –as has been reiterated by the Court of Justice of the European Union— by the governments that succeed each other since 2002, without exceptions, and by the that various parties have been part of, but fundamentally CC, PP and PSOE”.
However, they continue, “the current person in charge of giving a satisfactory solution to this matter is the Government that presides over the PSOE.”
The Confluence Table presented to the Government of the Canary Islands, at the beginning of this conflict in 2020, precise opinions providing solutions to consolidate the “abused doctors” by the Canarian administration and now that “there is no longer any impediment” after the approval of a law state, the Canary Health Service denies that differentiated scales can be enabled that prioritize the time worked in the job with respect to other foreign applicants.
According to the union, this argument is “completely false” because there is a precedent with the 1993 Castilla y León Sanitary Regulation Law, there is sufficient jurisprudence regarding similar cases and there are various administrations that have already legislated, in application of Law 20/ 2021, this type of scale exercising its autonomy and legislative competence, the most relevant case being that of Navarra.
“The height of the negligence of the government presided over by Ángel Víctor Torres has been to refuse to legislate in similar terms, arguing that the State Attorney would appeal that Navarrese law, which, once the deadline for it had expired, has not happened”, they point out
