The president of the Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM), Miguel Lázaro, has indicated that they are analyzing different pressure tactics with the aim of minimizing the consequences of the strike on patients as much as possible.
Lázaro expressed this on Thursday afternoon, in statements to the media, during a rally held in the center of Palma that brought together more than fifty doctors. The protest was directed against the Ministry of Health for the absence of real negotiation to reach a specific Framework Statute for the medical collective.
According to Lázaro's estimates, when the cycle of monthly strikes, scheduled for next June 19, concludes, the strike days could have affected around three million medical procedures.
"There is a component, which is harm to the patient, and we are considering to what extent we can propose other confrontation strategies. The public does not deserve this, nor do the patients," stressed the also president of Simebal, emphasizing the sector's concern about the healthcare repercussions.
Although he announced that, after the break in July and August, they "will return to the charge" in September, he did not specify whether they will maintain the current model of monthly strikes or opt for other types of mobilizations.
Among the alternatives on the table, Lázaro detailed, is for doctors to renounce all voluntary activity they carry out in addition to their ordinary work.
Another of the options they are considering is the call for an indefinite strike, a path that, he stressed, the collective "does not want," or the filing of a formal complaint with the European Commission to elevate the conflict to the community level.
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