The spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Assembly of Extremadura, Isabel Gil Rosiña, has denounced that the Junta de Extremadura, chaired by María Guardiola, has not yet initiated the bidding process for the contract for security and surveillance services for the hospitals and health centers of the Servicio Extremeño de Salud (SES), which, in her opinion, is "keeping professionals who currently perform these tasks in uncertainty."
Through a statement, Gil Rosiña has demanded that the regional government clarify what will happen starting October 15, the date on which the current contract that supports the provision of the service expires, emphasizing that, with less than two months left until that day, the Extremadura government "has still not tendered the new contract."
As she has indicated, the employees responsible for these tasks "do not know what will happen to the service or their jobs" once October 15 arrives and has insisted that "the most concerning" thing is that these workers "are seeking answers and the Administration, specifically the Ministry of Health, is not even responding to them."
The PSOE has detailed that this contract encompasses the surveillance and protection of the hospitals and health centers of the SES, as well as the control and security of the facilities, healthcare personnel, patients, and the people who visit these resources daily. "We are talking about an essential service for the functioning of our hospitals and health centers. We do not understand that, with less than two months left until the contract ends, the Ministry of Health has not yet tendered the new service and is also not providing explanations to the workers," the socialist spokesperson has defended.
Gil Rosiña has also emphasized that the currently valid contract was tendered in 2021, when the regional government was led by the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara, and has criticized the "lack of foresight" that, in her view, the Guardiola government demonstrates. "Now we find ourselves with workers who do not know what is going to happen and with an Administration that does not respond. The Ministry of Health must explain what its plan is and guarantee the continuity of the service," she has stated.
The socialist leader has warned that "public services cannot be governed from improvisation, but from planning" and has alerted that "what is going to happen with the security service of the hospital centers and health centers of Extremadura we greatly fear will have the same result as the processing of school transport, which at this moment is not guaranteed for the next school year in Extremadura."
For all this, the spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group has demanded that the Ministry of Health inform "immediately" about the situation in which the procedure for the new hiring is and that it ensures the provision of the service beyond October 15.
"Workers have the right to know what is going to happen with their employment and citizens have the right to know that their hospitals and health centers will continue to have a surveillance and security service. The Ministry of Health has to provide answers and guarantee the continuity of the service," concluded Gil Rosiña.