National strike health authorities announced for tomorrow, June 27th. Specifically, the OENGE Will stop from 10am to 3pm with a protest gathering at the Ministry of Labor at 10:30 am and a march at the Ministry of Finance, while POEDIN and EINAP announced a work stoppage from 9 am to 3 pm with mobilization in KESY.
OENGE is asking for this inclusion of health professionals in heavy and unhealthy professions because, as he says, there has been a positive conclusion from the Commission for three years and it has not been implemented. Thus, thousands of nurses and other specialties who provide services in the National Health Service, Pronoia, EKAB who retire at the age of 67 or 62 with more than 40 years of work. Nurses who were recruited to the SNS at a very young age retire at the age of 62, after 45 years of work, something that does not happen in any sector of public sector workers.
Furthermore, he highlights that 5,000 workers remain hired in cleaning, custody, catering, as the remaining 1,000 were laid off after the contractors set up. And the remaining 5,000 are being gradually laid off. They ask for a legislative initiative to prevent the transfer of support services to contractors and to give hospitals the possibility of entering into new collective agreements because they have been working for 7 years or more with continuous contract renewals and it is unfair to be led into unemployment.
“Hospitals have overdue debts of 1.3 billion euros, which is a “noose around their neck” in their operation. Therefore, they cannot spread money among contractors”, highlights OENGE.
With regard to salary, OENGE highlights that the salaries of health workers are humiliating, as is the hourly salary. The salary for nurses and paramedics is 800 euros, for ambulance drivers 680 euros. The 24-hour schedule (8 nights, 8 afternoons, 8 mornings and three holidays) pays 120 euros in total. While the doctor’s salary is 1,850 euros. For all of this, the wave of health professionals fleeing the NHS is growing stronger. If additional money is not given to Public Health, the last healthcare professional will soon be out of business.
POEDIN calls on medical students to participate en masse in the mobilizations demanding the annulment of the unacceptable KESY decision that introduces filters at the beginning of specialization, degrades the medical degree and constitutes a direct attack on young doctors with regard to their educational rights .
“No to the creation of multilevel doctors, the non-categorization of medical graduates and the complete framework and development of hospital medical departments”, POEDIN further highlights. “We need a substantial update of the teaching content and the guarantee of a uniform educational program so that it is possible to immediately absorb all medical graduates and the waiting period for the specialty is abolished. This is the only way to eliminate the phenomenon of some departments having long-term waits and others having many specialized positions vacant.”
According to POEDIN, the only condition for starting a specialty is a degree in Medicine.
Finally, EINAP in its letter to the president of KESY highlights “As the initiator of the well-known unacceptable regulation for the beginning of specialization and specialization of new doctors, you must appear at KESY, to explain to your colleagues why you decided to destroy ESY by expelling young specialists from the country. Our meeting will take place in your offices at 12pm, where we expect you to announce to us your withdrawal from the agreement.”