The group of Resident Internal Physicians (MIR) of the Canary Islands has communicated to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands that on September 15 they will start a strike if their requests are not answered.
The claims are part of the national scope of the Asociación MIR España, which calls for improvements in all aspects that affect this group. Among them are the lack of material and human resources suffered by the public health of the Islands. The spokesperson for the MIR in the Canary Islands, Santiago Bestard, assures that they have been claiming these improvements for a long time, but have not received any answers. “With the entire period of the pandemic and with everything that we have been through in hospitals, we have already reached a limit where we cannot continue like this,” he says.
Santiago Bestard clarifies that there are three main points they claim. First, “respect what the worker’s statute already says in terms of breaks between days”. Second, the training contract so that “a minimum of training” is guaranteed. And finally, Bestard calls for an improvement in remuneration because the Canary Islands “is one of the autonomous communities in all of Spain that pays the least for its doctors.”
Said claims have the support of the medical associations of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas, which adhere to them. The Canarian Medical Union asks the representatives of the Ministry of Health for a meeting to discuss and agree on the improvements claimed by professionals in training in the Canary Islands before September 15, and if not, Santiago Bestard clarifies that “a strike will be called” .
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