On Tuesday, around three hundred doctors demonstrate outside the Ministry of Health in Lisbon in defense of medical careers and the National Health Service (SNS).
“People deserve SNS”, “We want respect”, “United doctors will never be defeated” or “Costa, listen, the rain doesn’t scare us”, referring to the weather conditions at that moment, were some of the slogans. shouted health professionals.
The demonstration comes on the first of two days of a strike called by the National Federation of Doctors (Fnam) and five days after the unions meet with the Health Ministry and a new round of negotiations scheduled for next Thursday.
Doctors’ dissatisfaction was expressed through strikes and the submission of draft declarations by about 2,500 doctors for exemption from overtime work in addition to the mandatory 150 hours per year, which caused restrictions on emergency services in several of the Service’s hospitals. National health care.
In a proposal presented to unions on Thursday, the Ministry of Health includes a 500-euro-a-month bonus for doctors providing emergency care and the option to choose 35 hours a week.
Fnam has already announced that it will attend the meeting scheduled by the Ministry of Health for next Thursday “in good faith”, “in hopes of celebrating a historic agreement worthy of saving medical careers and SNS.” .
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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