ELA, Satse, LAB, MKB, CC. oo. and UGT assure that “our public health problems are structural” and demand “political will” from the Health Ministry to adopt the “immediate and far-reaching solutions” Osakidetza needs.
Euskaraz irakurri: Sindikatuek greba deitu dute Osakidetzan maiatzaren 18an et eta 19an
The trade unions ELA, Satse, LAB, the Euskadi Medical Union (SME), CC. oo. and UGT called strike across the entire Osakidetza network for the days May 18 and 19 to denounce “the dismantling of public health” and demand “political will” from the Ministry of Health to adopt the “immediate and far-reaching solutions” Osakidetza needs.
At a press conference in Bilbao, the union representatives criticized the “serious situation that Osakidetza is going through” and “the blocking of negotiations”, with a health ministry that, in their opinion, “has decided to remain deaf and dumb to the clamor of the streets”, referring to the massive demonstrations on February 25.
According to the union majority (ESK was left out of the call), the situation is “particularly worrying” in First concern, for which “Osakidetza has no plan but to make further cuts.” Exemplifying this “dismantling”, according to the factories, are the “closures and cutbacks” in several Ongoing Service Points (PAC), intended to “extend the reduction of hours throughout the year”.
ELA, Satse, LAB, MKB, CC. oo. and UGT assure that the department headed by Gotzone Sagardui has turned “the mantra of the lack of professionals” into the “perfect excuse for Osakidetza to take measures that are very difficult to justify”. They add that the retirements of the coming years will “make this situation even worse”, and condemn that given this, Osakidetza intends not to do anything about it.
Likewise, they have accused Osakidetza’s management of “systematic mistreatment of staff”, whose situation is becoming “increasingly precarious”, and that public attention is also increasingly precarious.
After denouncing that the sector table remains “absolutely blocked” and that the Ministry of Health and its adviser, Gotzone Sagardui, “systematically refuse to discuss and negotiate the issues raised by the union”, they assured that Osakidetza will not allow them “More path than mobilization”
“Our public health problems are structural and ahead of the pandemic, and require immediate and deep solutions,” they have warned, demanding Osakidetza and the Ministry of Health “political will to make public health a real priority, beyond propaganda”.
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Source: EITB
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