The pandemic has further strained the situation at this level of care that “was already dying before, since the problems are structural and much deeper and older than the current health crisis,” according to the SATSE, ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT unions.
Health personnel from the Basque Autonomous Community have gathered this Wednesday in front of the Vitoria-Gasteiz health centers, called by the SATSE, ELA, LAB, CCOO and UGT unions, to denounce the situation of the Osakidetza Primary Care, which your judgment it is unsustainable.
And it is that the pandemic has further strained the situation of this healthcare level that “was already dying before, since the problems are structural and much deeper and older than the current health crisis.”
However, this pandemic, in addition to “making the collective’s working conditions even more precarious and the quality of care offered to citizens, has also become an excuse for Osakidetza to apply cuts and hinder accessibility for patients. to the public health “, assure the unions.
All of this, they say, is coupled with “the lack of planning, reinforcement and investment, and the increased workload derived from managing the pandemic, has placed the Primary Care against the ropes“.
Before the pandemic, the workforce already seconded three days of strike in 2019 due to “lack of investment, cuts in accessibility, lack of supply of services and shortage of professionals.”
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