Emergency room workers at the José Molina Orosa Hospital agreed this Tuesday to go on strike in the face of the "collapse" that they claim this service is suffering "due to lack of staff." The strike does not yet have a date but it is estimated that it could start on January 29, according to what the head of the CSIF Sanidad Lanzarote Trade Union Section, Yoné Caraballo, has told La Voz.
The main demand, according to Caraballo, is that an area that exists in the Emergency Room with eight beds "and that is not opened" be enabled "permanently." "It is only used intermittently when we are already collapsed," says the head of CSIF Sanidad Lanzarote, who points out that they also demand that this area "be provided with full staff," that is, a doctor, an assistant, a nurse and a caretaker.
The decision to go on strike was made "unanimously" in an assembly that the Emergency Room staff held this Tuesday, which was attended by "about 40 or 45 workers" out of the approximately one hundred that make up the staff. And it is that, according to Yoné Caraballo, the staff in this area consider that a quality service is not being provided. "But not because we don't want to, but because we can't," said the head of CSIF Sanidad Lanzarote.
The official strike notice has not yet been presented, but it is estimated that it will be done throughout this week. Thus, according to Caballo, the strike could begin on January 29, although, however, he has pointed out that "it will not harm patients, because there will be minimum services."
