SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The CESM Canarias medical union has reaffirmed this Thursday in the call for an indefinite strike that starts on Friday due to the lack of dialogue with the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and has warned, among other problems, that some 300 specialists are finishing their training at the end of the month in Canarian hospitals and their continuity is not guaranteed.
Through a statement they demand a meeting with the strike committee, beyond the agreements that can be closed at the sectoral table, and maintain that the work team formed to undertake the salary review of doctors barely has a “schedule”. of meetings and its first results will not arrive until July.
The doctors insist that in the previous Sectoral Table “only minimum agreements were reached without a defined date”, and in the meeting on Wednesday a calendar was hardly set and no impact was made on the “multiple problems” presented by the doctors, physicians and residents of the Canary Islands.
Thus they state that “there is no talk of inequalities in the implementation of changes in Primary Care and there is no talk of measures aimed at reducing waiting lists in hospital care.”
They also state that the improvements achieved in the last year “have been insufficient and have not been applied correctly” because family doctors and pediatricians in Primary Care “continue to have unlimited schedules or time to care for their patients” apart from the fact that ” Absences are not being adequately replaced nor are emergencies being continuously reinforced”.
In hospital care, they continue, “an unprecedented care overload” is maintained, giving as an example that there is no internist in the General Hospital of Fuerteventura since sick leave is not replaced, “which is a scandal.”
They also point out that in several hospitals in the Canary Islands, the hiring of specialists who finish their training will not be carried out if there is no previous position to cover. “How do they explain all this in the context of endless waiting lists that all canaries suffer?” they wonder.
The doctors also affirm that the agreements “are to be fulfilled” and both the public health technicians and the residents have been waiting for a long time.
However, they defend “quality health care” based on “fewer waiting lists and care on time and on time to patients” for which they appeal to the “capacity for negotiation and dialogue” as has happened with other groups, case of public defenders.
