The adherence to the strike of the doctors of the Northern Regional Health Authority has already exceeded 85% for the second day and is about 90%, said on Thursday the regional secretary of the Independent Association of Physicians (SIM) Norte.
Speaking to Lusa agency, Hugo Cadaves said adherence to treatment was “very expressive and very significant”, highlighting the impact on hospital operating rooms and care in medical centers.
“Adhesion is identical to yesterday” [quarta-feira]. This is both above 85% and about 90%,” he concluded.
According to Hugo Cadaves, 11 operating rooms were stopped this Thursday at the São João hospital in Porto.
The person in charge said that the operating rooms are also closed in Penafiel, Viana do Castelo, Matosinhos and others.
“Vila Real has six rooms, one works,” he added.
As for the medical centres, the regional secretary of the SIM cited Matosinhos departments as an example, where, he said, “the commitment was 100% and not a single doctor worked.”
“There is a lot of dissatisfaction among doctors with working conditions and pay conditions in the National Health Service. This is an unavoidable problem that has led to an unprecedented withdrawal of doctors from the SNS, and it is this that has led to the closure of conventional emergency services. More than one million 600 thousand people are left without a family doctor, which is associated with the low attractiveness of a medical career in the SNA, which only increases the waiting time for consultations and makes waiting in hospitals long and even unbearable in emergency situations. “, – said Hugo Cadaves.
The two-day strike of doctors from the Northern Regional Health Administration initiated by SIM will end this Thursday at 00:00.
The union is demanding that the government integrate the entire medical profession into a single civil service pay scale and that the finance and health ministries submit “a proposal for a wage system that recovers career cumulative losses due to the erosion of inflation over the past decade and that places the entire medical class, including interns, with honor and justice in a single table of civil service remuneration.
This strike involves 12 hospitals and 11 groups of health centers (ACES) guaranteeing minimum services.
ARS Norte is planning another strike on the 20th and 21st.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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