The Amyts union, the majority among Madrid doctors, has demanded this Wednesday a specific and urgent rescue plan for eighteen health centers in the Community of Madrid, among which are Abrantes, Carabanchel Alto, Vicente Soldevilla, Parque Loranca and Navalcarnero, who are in a "critical" situation due to the "serious" lack of family doctors and pediatricians.
According to the union's estimates, 389,000 Madrid residents do not have an assigned doctor in these "failed" centers and, in many cases, for too long.
Amyts emphasizes in a statement that the Ministry of Health "cannot look the other way without doing anything" to fill the positions at the Navalcarnero health center, where four of nine pediatricians are missing; the Loranca Park, where there are ten out of eighteen family doctors, the Vicente Soldevilla health center where six family doctors are missing out of sixteen places, or the Abrantes health center, where there are eight family doctors out of the seventeen that it should have.
The union proposes incentives and conciliation measures to rescue these centers "overwhelmed by overload, with patients without an assigned doctor" with the purpose of making these positions attractive again.
Specifically, it suggests promoting the coverage of afternoon positions, through promotion in the professional career, so that one can choose to raise the level every three years worked in pure afternoons, and also raises the possibility of acquiring a higher score per month. worked in the job market in pure afternoons.
Likewise, it advocates for a real sizing of the workforce, the preparation of a new document of sliding shifts to facilitate conciliation, the remuneration of 500 euros per month for a year for afternoon positions that are difficult to fill, greater agility and transparency in the assignment of modules to attend to overflow agendas and the establishment of the new agenda model homogeneously in all care directions.
During the negotiations of the last Primary Care strike, which lasted from November 2022 to March 2023, the strike committee - made up of Amyts and numerous medical organizations - pursued specific measures for these difficult-to-fill positions, the union recalls in the note.
The Ministry of Health left it to future negotiations with the committee to monitor the agreements to address the problems of these centers, but "the recovery in these dozen and a half centers has not yet arrived."
At Amyts they recognize that the agreement to end the strike was "a necessary step" to make Family Medicine and Pediatrics positions in Primary Care attractive, above all, thanks to the limitation of patient schedules, but there is still "a lot left to do." do".
For this reason, they insist on the need to implement a rescue plan and consider that it is necessary to put an end to the continued forcing of doctors' and pediatricians' agendas beyond 34 and 24 patients, as established in the strike agreement, for which the union urges the Ministry of Health to take triage and demand control measures, in addition to promoting information campaigns aimed at the population.
