The Ministry of Health and Consumption has set 100% of minimum services in the ER and 30% of the consultations before the strike called in Primary Care by the Andalusian Medical Union (SMA) for the next Wednesdays, from the 12th and until on May 24 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
For her part, the Minister of Health and Consumption, Catalina GarcÃa, today admitted her “concern” about the called strike, but she was convinced that in the end there will be an agreement for primary care.
In statements to Canal Sur TV, the counselor does not believe that this pact is “in danger” because it is “necessary” and has expressed her certainty that in the end “it will go ahead.”
In addition, the counselor has thanked the unions of the sector table for their “will and wanting to continue negotiating”
In a statement, the Ministry has indicated that these minimum services are aimed at preserving “the essentiality” of the service provided in the health field, since, as it explains, “the non-fixing of the same could cause significantly higher damage than the objective that is intended to be achieved with the strike, since it can endanger the health and, even, in some cases, the lives of the people who are treated in them, given their vulnerability”.
Specifically, having valued these necessary services for the proper functioning of the affected services, the Board has established 100% maintenance of the services that provide Urgent Care, thus the SUAP (Primary Care Emergency Service) will have 100% minimum services without modification of schedules.
As regards the calculation of the number of minimum service professionals, it will be carried out according to the criteria of guaranteeing attention to approximately 30% of the consultations that regularly occur in each center and, in any case, that the most vulnerable patients and those pathologies that, without constituting an immediate emergency, do need to be closely monitored and treated without delay, including arrhythmias or other cardiac pathologies, respiratory problems, diabetic decompensation, cancer patients, etc.
In this way, in those centers where only one professional is scheduled for a shift, this will be maintained as a minimum service. In those centers where there are three professionals, the minimum services will be covered by one professional. In those health centers that have three or more pediatricians, one of them will be included among the personnel designated as a minimum service.
Finally, the Ministry of Health has indicated that the calculation of said percentages will be made based on the actual effective staff foreseen for those days and that resident internal staff may not be designated as minimum services.
