Margarita Ferreras (CSIF): “We know that there is a lack of doctors, but we cannot tolerate that Pascual has not planned something that could be seen coming”

Behind him strike announcement in the Primary Care Emergency Services (SUAP) of Cantabria for him December and Christmas holidays, the Minister of Health of the Government of Cantabria, César Pascual, showed his surprise at a call for which he claimed not to know the reasons. Some words that They have not gone down well with professionals, who have experienced a critical summer and who have been demanding changes in the service at the personnel level for months.. That is why this Friday the president of the Health Sector of CSIF-Cantabria, Margarita Ferrerashas responded, remembering that “He has had these reasons in writing” on numerous occasions, and “he will have them again.”.

As pointed out in statements to Cadena Ser, CSIF, one of the organizers of the strike along with SUAP, The demands of this strike have already been raised “in the meetings” with Pascual, who was reminded that “It’s not about raising our salary.” That, he assures, “is not the reason for the conflict.”. In fact, Ferreras affirms that what isThe aim is to “propose an agreement that includes a contingency plan to resolve incidents of lack of professionals”. Some problems that, in his opinion, were something that was known to happen. From CSIF “we know that there is a lack of doctors, and we are tolerant, but the fact that they have not planned something that was seen coming and that was on the table is what we cannot tolerate”.

In this sense, remember that this summer “70% of SUAPs have had a lack of doctors at some point,” but in response to that “there has been no measure taken by this administration to solve it”. Ferreras has given some specific data, emphasizing the fact that they are the ones they have registered. For example, “On 49 occasions there has not been a SUAP between June and September” in any of the health centers in Cantabria. In another 30 times, “instead of there being two doctors, there has been only one”something that he has pointed out has also been repeated this same month of October, since last report “in the SUAP of Sardinero, instead of two doctors, there was one.”

“There has been an overload of care, and centers in which a single doctor has seen more than 80 patients in his wards”some even more, said the CSIF spokesperson. A situation that qualifies as “unnecessary healthcare and health risk” for both professionals and patients. And this lack of professionals has meant that, in “situations in which there was home care to attend to an emergency”, “the SUAP was left unattended”. Ferreras has assured that In the case of Meruelo this problem has occurred “24 times”. Added to this is that “More than 40 vacations have been denied between June and September” to professionals.

That is why he has insisted that “We are not talking about money, we are talking about an action plan to correct this overload that produces uncertainty among professionals,” and that “is not convenient for patients either.”. “We will have to sit down with him, we have been telling him that many times. We must look for reinforcements,” CSIF has demanded.