The Professional Union of Doctors of the Canary Islands (CESM Canarias) threatens to carry out a doctors' strike next week after learning that the new director of the Canary Islands Health Service, Adasat Goya, had published the exam dates for the stabilization process opened in the islands without having resolved the previous phase or awarded the places to the professionals most affected by the temporary nature.
In this line, the Union of Medical Employees of the Canary Islands (Semca) announced at the beginning of the week that if the call for the public employment offer (OPE) to stabilize the staff of the Canary Islands Health Service was not canceled before last Monday, September 15 at 3:00 p.m. they would go on strike and also to the courts against the Canary Islands Health Service.
The area dependent on the Canary Islands Ministry of Health announced that the stabilization tests would take place from October 29 to October 5 of this year. Semca stressed that exams of this type cannot be started until the appointment of those who have already obtained stabilization through the merit competition takes place.
This stabilization process is planned for the categories of statutory personnel of the A1 classification subgroup for health and management and services, corresponding to highly qualified professionals, such as specialist doctors and doctors. Thus, this stabilization seeks to alleviate the high temporary nature in the hiring of healthcare professionals of the Canary Islands Health Service.
CESM Canarias formally registered the strike notice and warned that it will carry out an indefinite strike starting on September 23, one day later than initially planned to comply with legal deadlines. In this sense, in a statement it highlighted that the action of the Canary Islands Health Service is "an outrage".
At the same time, doctors and physicians are called to a national strike for October 3 in which they demand their own statute, professional reclassification and other measures such as the 35-hour weekly working day or the regulation of localized on-call duty so that they are considered as worked days.
They denounce the breach of deadlines
Semca denounced that the Government of the Canary Islands has not complied with the deadlines of the stabilization process. "The Minister of Health has done absolutely nothing to ensure that the deadline of December 31, 2024 successfully culminates the complete execution of all stabilization selection processes," he continued denouncing.
At the same time, he indicated that the Ministry of Health breached a second three-year deadline in June of this year. "The jurisprudence of the Supreme Court is required of any selective process for its complete and total execution," he indicated.
They accuse the Ministry of pushing doctors to abandon the Canary Islands Health Service
The union highlighted that the Minister of Health, Esther Monzón, is "a champion of public temporary hiring in the country and the number one manager in precarious hiring and abuse of temporary employment".
For the health union, "it is grotesque that the Minister complains about waiting lists and a lack of doctors when all her actions do nothing more than push them to abandon the Canary Islands public health service," he concluded.
