Iñigo Urkullu has assured that it is not possible to speak of dismantling or structural problems in Osakidetza and has framed the main difficulty in the shortage of family doctors. “This problem cannot be solved with a strike,” he stressed.
The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, warned this Thursday that “this is not the time to call a strike” in Osakidetza after defending that the Basque Health System has given a “high-level response” to all the problems caused by the pandemic.
Urkullu has responded in this way to a question formulated in the plenary session of control of the Basque Parliament by the spokesperson for Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, Miren Gorrotxategi, who has considered it reasonable that the unions have announced two days of strike in Osakidetza on February 25 and 28.
“What is not reasonable is the inability of the Basque Government to give an adequate response to these demands” and to the “structural problems” of this public service, which, in Gorrotxategi’s opinion, are “the result of the cuts that began in 2008” and of the “lack of planning and staff”.
The lehendakari has recognized that Osakidetza has problemsbut he specified that, like all the health systems of the rest of the autonomous regions and the surrounding countries, they have them, while stressing that “they have been given a high-level response from the beginning.”
“I know and understand the problems and difficulties, but this is not the time to call a strike, but rather to continue guaranteeing public care and health,” he said.
Urkullu has assured that it is not possible to speak of dismantling or structural problems in Osakidetza and has framed the main difficulty in the shortage of family doctors. “This problem cannot be fixed with a strike”, he has settled.
He added that despite the pandemic, the Basque Government “spares no resources” because its priority is to maintain Basque public health, which, as he has stated, is the best valued in the State by the Federation for the Defense of Public Health.
It has reiterated that health spending per person per year in the Basque Country is 1,984 euros, that its budget has gone from 3,800 million euros in 2019 to 4,300 this year, that it has 45,700 professionals, compared to 40,900 in 2019 and that an OPE with 3,525 places is underway.
Source: Eitb
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