The OSI Donostialdea crisis reaches the Basque Parliament

The crisis of the OSI Donostialdeawhere they registered in the last few days, various resignations and redundancies within the Management Team, arrived this Friday at the Basque Parliament. The Chamber hosted the plenary session in which the amendments to the totality submitted by all the opposition groups to the budget project of the Basque government have been discussed, but in addition, before entering the plenary session, as various groups have to the crisis, both the lehendakari referred.

In this context, de Lehendakari, Inigo Urkullu, before entering the Basque Parliament, has shown confidence that the conflict can be channeled, sending a message of “calm” to Basque society. The lehendakari has defended the dismissal of the manager of the OSI Donostialdea, Itziar Pérez, and of the medical director of the health center, Idoia Gurrutxaga, over a trust issue.

“We are talking about the loss of two positions of trust. When there is no mutual trust in a participatory, strategic approach, which has been discussed in successive meetings, it makes sense that it should be resolved that way, without further ado,” summarized Urkullu, who also has assured that “there is no problem” in the restructuring of the OSI Donostialdea and the Donostia Hospital: “On the contrary, we propose to increase the referentiality” of this hospital, he added.

The parliamentarian of EH Bildu Nerea Kortavarena has warned that the “major crisis” the OSI Donostialdea is going through shows Osakidetza “collapse like a house of cards”, and shows that the management of Health Minister Gotzone Sagardui is “no more than causing conflict”.

Kortaarena has warned that “it cannot continue like this” and that it is necessary to implement “structural reforms” in the Basque health service. In addition, he has alluded to the centralization of the heart surgery service at Cruces hospital or to the “cuts” in the ongoing care points, and has warned that the Basque health service is “losing the public referentiality it had in the public”. “.

Elkarrekin Podemos-IU parliamentary spokesperson Miren Gorrotxategi, has accused the Basque government of “turning health management into an ongoing conflict”, stating that “the disagreements with the Ministry of Health that caused the layoffs, redundancies and staffing in the Donostialdea OSI are based on the overburdening of the care, the lack of professionals and cuts in hours of service”. “It also seems that in the background there is a great discomfort with the uncertainty about the future of the Onkologikoa center, after its integration into Osakidetza,” he added.

Gorrotxategi, who has stated that the Integrated Health Organization is “experiencing moments of unprecedented crisis”, has pointed out that 42 of the 47 heads of service accuse the Basque government of “sectarianism, verticality and incompetence”: “The truth The problem is that what is in San Sebastián is not something specific, something that has never happened before” as “this government has made health management a constant conflict”.

The president of the PP+Cs group, Carlos Iturgaizhas described what is happening in the OSI as “indecent”, and has called for “more attention, more decisive support for professionals and less purges and less prosecutions” because the lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, “fired Osakidetza because of his disastrous management “.

Iturgaiz has defended the need to “provide stability and security to society” in times of crisis, “the opposite of what they are doing today, for example, in Osakidetza”; As he has stated, “something very different” is needed in the field of health than that “order and order” of Minister Sagardui, which “puts fundamental institutions for the care of citizens against the ropes”.