The labor organization Asamblea 7 Islas has criticized this Tuesday the assignment among the personnel of the Canarian Health Service of positions on islands different from the workers' residence and the delay of a transfer competition that has been more than a decade without being called, and has asked for solutions to this situation.
Asamblea 7 Islas states in a communiqué that "numerous health and non-health professionals, after many years of preparation and sacrifice to pass selective processes, are forced to renounce the permanent position that has been awarded to them due to the assignment of destinations on islands other than their place of residence, which implies assuming unaffordable expenses for rent, maintenance, and transport".
A problem that occurs, "especially, in categories with salaries that do not allow facing a double cost of living", assures the organization, which adds that "to this problem is added the situation of thousands of workers who are already part of the system and who have been waiting for more than ten years for the call for a transfer competition".
A delay that has led to "many of these professionals continuing to perform their duties on islands other than their usual residence, with frequent travel every weekend, family separation, and economic overload", it points out.
7 Islas, given this situation, announces that it has formally requested, both from the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands and from the managements of the different public health centers, "that service commissions be urgently facilitated, both for the candidates of the selective processes currently underway and for future ones, as well as for those workers awaiting a transfer competition".
The reason is that, "given the lack of short-term structural solutions, we consider that the granting of service commissions is the most viable and immediate tool to alleviate the situation", the note concludes.
Solutions for the Health staff who do not work on their island, demands Asamblea 7 Islas
They denounce the delay of a transfer competition that has been more than a decade without being convened, which forces "numerous professionals to renounce their permanent position due to unbearable expenses"
April 21 2026 (15:28 WEST)
