Doctors from Lisbon and Vale do Tejo go on two-day strike

The second two-day strike by doctors in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo began at 00:00 this Wednesday and covered hospitals and health centers that were not covered by the strike that took place on September 13 and 14.

The regional strike, organized by the Independent Union of Doctors (SIM), will last until midnight Thursday and will affect Northern Lisbon, Central Lisbon, Western Lisbon, Western Lisbon, the Medio Tagus hospital centers and the Dutor Fernando Fonseca Hospital (Amadora Sintra). , Santarem, Armed Forces Hospital and Caxias Prison Hospital.

According to SIM, the strike also covers the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Medicine of the South, the Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation and the Division of Intervention in Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies (DICAD) of the Regional Health Directorate of Lisbon and Valais. .Tejo.

The two-day strike also includes doctors from groups of medical centers (ACES) of Northern Lisbon, Central Lisbon, Oeste and Oeiras, Amadora, Sintra, Oeste Norte, Oeste Sul, Medio Tagus and Leziria.

According to SIM, the strike aims to demand the government “an effective response” to the union’s list of demands, and that the finance and health ministers present “a proposal for a wage scale that will replace the losses accumulated due to inflationary erosion” . last decade and this places the entire medical profession, including interns, with honor and fairness on a single civil service remuneration table.”

The minimum services required during a regional medical strike are established in the collective labor regulations in force in the SNS, says SIM.

Negotiations between doctors’ unions and the Ministry of Health began in 2022, but there has been no agreement yet.