More Madrid, PSOE and Unidas Podemos insist that the new “negotiating spirit” shown by the regional government would not have been possible without the demonstration last Sunday
The Ministry of Health is still facing new negotiations at the sectoral table and the problems of primary care
The popular take advantage of the health crisis to deepen the fight for the leadership of the left
The result has left a sweet and sour taste in all parts. The reopening of 78 extra-hospital emergency centers and the implementation of the new model devised by the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso ran aground on Thursday night after a long meeting between the Ministry of Health and the medical union. Both parties have given up and the strike that put the doctors on a war footing on November 7th has finally been called off. And the left is convinced that this result has only been possible thanks to the demonstration last Sunday in Madrid in defense of public health.
Ayuso herself said earlier this week that she was confident that once the demonstration was over, she hoped it would be easier to reach an agreement. He has not tired of saying, during the ten days that the health professionals have been on strike in the 24-hour emergency room, that the march that brought together between 200 and 670,000 attendees, according to one source or another, was a “boycott” of the left-wing parties, accusing them of use the march for electoral purposes since the polls indicate that the majority in the Community of Madrid is leaning to the right.
pending negotiations
The proposal finally accepted by both parties provides doctors to 49 out-of-hospital emergency centers (39 from the former Rural Care Services – SAR- and ten Rural Care Emergency Services -SUAP-), but leaves up in the air what will happen with the remaining 29 centers. The agreement indicates that its future operation will be negotiated with the rest of the unions of the Sector Table. “This (in reference to calling off the strike) is a great news for all the citizens of Madrid, especially for them, who are the protagonists of their public health, a public health for which this Government has always opted”, said the regional president yesterday in her first public act after the news was released on Thursday at midnight.
Great news that does not solve the problem of Madrid’s health, since health professionals are also with the swords held high for the situation of primary care and on Monday the 21st another strike by family doctors and pediatricians will begin in these centers. Negotiations are accumulating in the Ministry and the wear and tear after the noise and the resignations and dismissals of the last months and days is already evident.
Demonstration of citizen strength
More Madrid, PSOE and United We Can They applauded the agreement reached on extra-hospital emergencies and they all scored it as a point, since the three spokespersons for the leftist formations consider that the “new spirit” of government negotiating to which Amyts referred would not have been possible without the demonstration last Sunday.
The end of the strike, he said yesterday Monica Garcia, spokesman for Más Madrid in the Madrid Assembly, is a “demonstration” that mobilizations, strikes and demonstrations “serve”. The socialist spokesman, Juan Lobato, He immediately reacted to the agreement through his twitter. “Good news. We are somewhat better than yesterday. But worse than we should be,” he said before referring to the proposals included in the Madrid health rescue plan that his formation has presented this week, and added: “After rectify, it’s time to comply. Thank you Madrid for speaking clearly on Sunday”.
competition on the left
The popular ones have used the strike not only to accuse the left of a political boycott in general, but also to try to delve into the war for leadership of this political spectrum that mainly Más Madrid and PSOE maintain in the region. PP deputies have joined Ayuso this week in pointing out that the PSOE is giving away this battle to the formation of Monica Garciaprecisely because the leader of what is today the main opposition party emerged from the white tides ten years ago for his career as an anesthetist.
The Socialists, although they ignore the darts thrown by the right, are aware that García has gained part of the ground if the political confrontation continues only in the health field. For this reason, this week Lobato presented a health rescue program to deal with the chaos and crisis in this sector in Madrid and trying to show that his party also has a lot to say on this matter, sitting down as a proponent of some of the measures presented to the former Minister of Health in the Basque Country and spokesman for Health in the Assembly for 12 years, José Manuel Freire and other doctors such as Carlos Moreno, cardiologist and Secretary of Health of the Madrid PSOE Executive, among others.
Vigilantes
But the parties themselves recognize that we must remain vigilant before the agreement between the Government of Ayuso and Amyts because a third of the open centers, those in which it was said that telemedicine would be applied, continue without having a doctor. Both the Ministry and the union were interested in closing the conflict as soon as possible and not continuing to prolong it, also having another strike in the offing that could generate many more problems because they probably serve a much larger population than emergencies at the end of the day.
Caroline Alonsospokesman for Unidas Podemos in the Assembly, recalled in his statements to the media that 29 of these centers still do not have the necessary health personnel and assured that his party will continue working so that “from the streets” they urge the full equipment of these thirty centers.
Ten comments on the agreement for the resolution of the strike for extra-hospital emergencies.https://t.co/7zERb2w70i
— Javier Padilla (@javierpadillab) November 18, 2022
The health spokesperson for Más Madrid, javier padilla, he reflected in this line in a thread on his twitter account, acknowledging that the agreement was not as good as it could be. The situation, he said, is “worse than before the summer. Fewer centers open, with less staff. In the best of cases, the agreement leaves SAR and SUAP thinned out, and more than 3 million people without emergency medical attention out-of-hospital.” And he warned that the matter could be closed falsely: “The agreement is at the expense of follow-up (in reference to the pending negotiation at the sectoral table). The last time that happened there was a new strike.”
sources of the oppositionIn fact, even applauding the agreement and insisting that it would not have been possible without the demonstration last Sunday, they cannot avoid commenting in conversation with this newspaper: “Going into more detail, I think that it’s all a bit bluff“.
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