The Madrid health unions have announced this Thursday a collective lawsuit against the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid “for its very serious and repeated failures to prevent occupational risks in Primary Care.”
“The Community of Madrid has been failing to comply with the law in Primary Care that since 1995 requires establishing a risk map, preventive planning and an occupational risk prevention plan for its professionals,” say all the organizations that promote this conflict. The signatory groups of this lawsuit are Amyts, CCOO, SATSE, CSIT Unión Profesional, UGT, CSIF and APSeMueve.
These organizations estimate that they defend more than 15,000 health center professionals, who feel “unprotected” at risk of “suffering from both physical and mental health problems.” According to the CSIF spokesperson, Fernando Felipe, in the press conference held this Thursday, “if there was a prevention plan” the administration would have tools to deal with the “physical and verbal attacks” suffered by Primary Care workers. , not only health workers, but also administrative staff and guards. “They are not being quantified,” Felipe assured about these attacks.
For his part, Vicente Martín, spokesperson for ApSeMueve, reports that in recent years there have been around 90 individual rulings favorable to professionals that oblige the Community of Madrid to compensate, for this reason, up to 8,000 euros to each affected professional. ”. This is one of the reasons that has driven this collective conflict in which they are asking for compensation of five million euros.
“We have been forced to go to court to achieve our main and only objective: to preserve the safety and health of all Primary Care workers,” said all the plaintiff union organizations, who assure that they have tried to negotiate and dialogue with the Ministry, without success for the moment.
The Community of Madrid disassociates itself from the accusations of these unions. The Ministry of Health has issued a statement in which it assures that this department “has had a preventive action strategy since 2019 in the face of situations of psychosocial risk.” However, the regional Executive has noted that “preventive planning (the specific measures to be implemented) were slowed down by the pandemic in 2020.”
The measures of the plan cited by the Ministry have achieved a reduction “by 7% in attacks on professionals in Primary Care so far this year and compared to 2023,” says the regional health department. And he adds: “Another element of great impact is the reduction in workload and, therefore, a psychosocial improvement, thanks to the 40% decrease in Family Medicine vacancies from January to September of this year.” The promoters of the demand indicate that the strategy disseminated by Health has not been developed with the consensus of the union organizations.
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