“In the region, adhesion exceeds 90 percent, as in Rancagua,” with these words the National Secretary General and President Confusam Rancagua, Marco Vargas, began the first day of mobilization of primary care officials associated with We are confused that this Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th they are holding a strike throughout the national territory.
The measure – the leader explained – is carried out due to the insufficiency in carrying out negotiations with the government and the conditions faced by health workers throughout the country, which further complicates the situation, “There are officials who have been waiting Their retirement has been more than 4 years and they have not received the money and more than 30 of them have died waiting for their retirement incentive bonus and they could not retire because they died.” He added that “in addition, the user treatment bonus is canceled to improve the quality of care, but the bonus paid to the clinics is $100,000 lower than the hospitals and we are pressuring the Minister of Finance to match it.” Vargas remarked.
Likewise, the health leader added that, “another pending issue is that of security and that the anti-assault law is not made effective, because we suffer attacks every day and the directors who have the duty by law to file a complaint, they don’t do it. We have financing pending, where in Rancagua there has not been enough per capita to pay salaries or to buy medicines since December, there is no progress on all these issues.”
It should be noted that the strike was originally going to take place in March and was suspended due to negotiations between Confusam and the government. However, at the beginning of this month it was confirmed that the union would carry out this two-day strike throughout the national territory, since they have not seen concrete measures regarding the commitments agreed with the government.
“The strike is for two days, tomorrow there is a march in Santiago where we expect close to ten thousand people. Today the colleagues have concentrated in the clinics, today the attention has been reduced, but we are with ethical shifts, attending to critical clinical and also social cases, which continues until this Thursday while waiting for the government to improve its offer in the negotiation, or the next mobilization will be 4 days.”
Regarding the reality of Rancagua, the director of the Health Division of Cormun Rancagua, Nataly Carrasco, indicated that “we have around 800 officials who belong to CONFUSAM who adhere to the strikes, the 7 CESFAM are operating with ethical shifts and the SAR and SAPU during normal hours, which continues until this Thursday.” She added that “we are doing a tour daily, we are taking turns to accompany them to see that any type of care is not suspended. So far everything has worked normally.”
Finally, from the O’Higgins Health Service they indicated that, of 33 establishments, 26 joined the mobilization.
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