The Portuguese Union of Nurses (SEP) announced this Thursday a national strike on November 10, targeting the existing problems in the National Health Service (SNS) and demanding a solution from the Ministry of Health.
“We are announcing the fight plan that we are going to develop. From the very beginning, a complex of military actions in all regional areas, throughout the country, (…), as well as a national strike on November 10,” AKP President José Carlos Martins told reporters this Thursday.
The leader spoke at a press conference after a meeting of the union’s national leadership in Lisbon.
José Carlos Martins warned that if the Ministry of Health does not propose a solution by November 10, other forms of struggle will follow.
The latest nurses’ strike brought together several dozen such health workers on June 30 at the Ministry of Health in Lisbon to demand better working conditions.
During the protest, a motion was approved in which the AKP stated that it is “unacceptable and intolerable” that the Ministry of Health continues to fail to respond to nurses’ concerns.