A reader has contacted La Voz to denounce the "poor management" in the face of the strike by senior health technicians at the José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote.
This strike has been called for October 30 and 31, and November 3 and 4 to defend their rights. Specifically, they are asking for "the improvement of technician training to University Degree level, that they be paid what they are owed for the last 18 years, and that their status as a healthcare profession be recognized."
The patient who contacted this newsroom says that she was called for a mammogram this Friday, October 31, after waiting a year for it. However, upon entering the hospital, she received a call telling her that her appointment was canceled due to the strike.
"What I don't understand is why they call me on the 31st knowing that there is a strike called... no one answers, I ask how to solve the problem and no one knows because it is a strike and there is no protocol," the woman complains. In this sense, she emphasizes that this complaint "is not directed at the technicians, but at the management by the system itself."
Furthermore, she points out that she requested a proof of appointment to accredit the medical appointment to the company she works for, but they told her that "they couldn't give it to me because in the end the appointment didn't take place."
Likewise, at the hospital, she was informed that "they are supposed to call her" for a future appointment. "A test like this and they suppose they will call me... tomorrow I die because they don't detect what I might have in time and poor me, just one more...", she complains.