The health minister has admitted that there are “points for improvement”, but “only” those that can be addressed through dialogue.
The Minister of Health of the Basque Government, Gotzone Sagardui, has rejected the “dismantling” of the Basque health service and stressed that the two-day strike called by the trade unions is taking place in the midst of the municipal and municipal elections campaign in the Basque Autonomous Community. In addition, he hopes that the strike “occurs as little as possible” in Osakidetza and has admitted that there are “areas for improvement”but they can be addressed “only” by the dialogue.
ELA, Satse, LAB, MKB, CC. oo. and UGT started a two-day strike this Thursday, calling for demonstrations in the CAV’s three capitals, with concentrations in primary care centers.
Sagardui has again denied in an interview with Onda Vasca that there is “a dismantling” of Osakidetza and has asked the unions on what they base this accusation.
As he noted, there are “four pillars of growth and consolidation” of the Basque health service. To staffhas referred to the OPEN, to ensure that there are currently 11,000 positions out of a total of 32,200 structure positions “currently definitively covered”. In this line, he reminded that the OPE 2018-2019 is awaiting the preliminary results which will be known before the OPE 2020-21-22 exams.
In budget, as he clarified, is growing at about 6%, being “a priority commitment” of the Basque government. “We are the community that invests the most money in health for every citizen. We currently exceed 2,100 euros,” he said.
Testing and data
The program counselor points out that more than 3,000 people participate in research and innovation 1500 research projects. “What is the origin of talk of a dismantling of Osakidetza?”; has asked to ensure that “here is the evidence, is the data”, that this is not the case.
lack of doctors
Sagardui has admitted the lack of doctors, especially in the first concern. “It is a fact that it occurs not only at the level of the CAV, but also at the level of the state and at the European level. We have made proposals in our internal organizations to the ministry to try to improve this situation.” , as long as it can’t complete that shortage of existing professionalsbecause they are measures that take time to have results,” he added.
Source: EITB
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