Pharmacists and biologists have flooded social networks with their protest and discomfort, in addition to collecting more than 46,000 signatures in a short time to request an increase in Specialized Health Training places.
The trigger was the Government’s announcement, published in the BOE, in which it is specified that the places for FIR (Internal Resident Pharmacist) and BIR (Internal Resident Biologist) are reduced by 3% and 4%.
The news has generated discomfort in both groups of professionals, above all, because, as they argue, the Covid pandemic has demonstrated the need to increase health professionals. And not just doctors or nurses.
Alejandra Abella, one of the affected professionals, shared her testimony in La Vanguardia’s La Mirada del Lector. Among other things, he points out that it is precisely these professionals who are managing the Covid test avalanche.
Young people doing laboratory practices. (Xavier Cervera)
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Alejandra Abella: “It’s an insult”
I feel forgotten by the organs that should represent me. In an official note from the Ministry of Health, the number of places for Resident Internal Healthcare workers (MIR, BIR, FIR, EIR, QUIR, PIR, RFIR) was published.
Quite possibly, the existence of MIR or EIR only sounds familiar to you, since the other specialties are the great forgotten.
And it is precisely this that our Government made clear, by notably reducing the number of BIR (Biologists) and FIR (Pharmaceutical) positions offered, dropping from 52 to 50 national positions for the former, and from 276 to 267 for the latter.
Both specialists, we are in charge of running the saturated laboratories of the hospital, where the famous PCR is carried out, the antigen test is analyzed and the innumerable analyzes are carried out and validated on patients, which have multiplied during the pandemic.
We know that we are the great forgotten of this health crisis. However, the decrease in the number of places has practically come to us as an insult. And that is why I come to you, in search of a visibility that the Government insists on denying us.
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