The Independent Doctors’ Union (SIM) denounced on Thursday that the local health department of Tâmega e Sousa is forcing a doctor from the Penafiel hospital to provide services in Amarante, contrary to the Collective Labour Agreement.
“The Padre América Hospital in Penafiel does not allow doctors to exercise their rights established by the Collective Labor Agreement (ACT), which the hospital itself signed in 2009,” said a statement sent to Lusa.
Regarding the position of this union, a source in the ULS administration told Lusa that “since the creation of the hospital center in 2008, several professional groups have provided services in two departments (Amarante and Penafiel).
The Padre América Hospital in Penafiel, together with the São Gonçalo Hospital in Amarante, are part of the recently created Tâmega e Sousa Local Health Unit, which also includes the primary health care network (health centres) in this area, covering 11 municipalities and about half a million inhabitants.
SIM, in turn, emphasizes that Penafiel Hospital is forcing a doctor who is a member of a union to go to an institution that is not part of his place of work.
But as for ULS, “in this particular case it’s just one doctor out of hundreds,” adding that the specialist is “planned [para Amarante] “only for December.”
As an additional explanation to the statement, Hugo Cadaves, the leader of SIM, told Lusa that there are dozens of colleagues in the same situation, “who could exercise the same right, but do not do so because the hospital refuses to do so.”
For this representative structure of workers, “never in the history of this trade union and since the signing of the Collective Labour Agreement in 2009 have there been any demands to provide work at an employer’s enterprise located in another municipality.”
SIM also warns that “given such serious insistence on identifying illegal orders and given the clarity of the issue” the union will resort to legal action.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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