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The five union organizations present in the Health Sector Roundtable (SATSE AMYTS, CSIT and UGT) have communicated to Raquel Sampedro, general director of Human Resources of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS), through a common and consensual response, the frontal rejection of the “Primary Care Improvement Plan” presented, for the third time, by the Ministry of Health due to the “underfunding” that primary care suffers and the real absence of a plan to revive it. In this sense, the five union organizations, which represent more than 83,000 SERMAS workers, recall that the Madrid PA is underfunded since more than 1,175 million euros would be necessary to reach the 25% considered optimal. The regional government's proposal of 200 million in two years is “anecdotal and not real with respect to the needs of health centers,” they point out. MADRID, THE COMMUNITY THAT INVESTS THE LESS IN AP Likewise, they remember that "currently Madrid is one of the Autonomous Communities that invests the least in AP and the investment proposal is clearly insufficient." To date, the community has received more than.
billion euros from the central government's Covid-19 fund, is waiting to receive another important transfer of finalist funds and, in addition, the Ministry has announced more than 1 billion euros for reinforce the PA in all the Autonomous Communities. Likewise, they consider it a “mockery” that, for the construction of new health centers , the Ministry headed by Enrique Ruiz Escudero Australia Phone Number states that 30 million euros are available in execution and another 62 million in the process of contracting. The reality, the unions explain, is that the majority of health centers under construction, and a part of those pending contracting, have been announced in previous plans for years and even decades, without having been executed. In addition, the Government of Isabel Díaz-Ayuso has reported that they budget euros for improvement, remodeling and modernization of infrastructure in health centers in two years. “This amount is insufficient to undertake all the urgent and necessary reforms in many of them and the rents paid are not taken into account, even though many centers are located in unhealthy spaces,” they say. “The centers and positions subject to a greater workload or less favorable conditions must be adequately compensated,” say the unions.
Regarding the workforce, the unions of the Sectorial Roundtable agree that it is necessary, in one or two years, to increase the current workforce by more than 2,500 professionals of all categories and another 1,500 more in the next years, to compensate for the unreplenished jobs, as well as retirements. Therefore, the estimated budget increase to correct the workforce deficit must be at least 200 million euros annually. Regarding salary improvements, they say the Government has allocated just under 35 million for two years which, contrary to what has been stated, does not mean a real salary increase. Furthermore, the amount of these payments “will not be a real attraction” for professionals to want to work in the Madrid AP, as the Ministry intends, since the real increases range between The centers and positions subject to a greater workload or less favorable conditions must be adequately compensated and the Ministry has the obligation to immediately improve these deteriorated working and professional conditions,” they conclude.
billion euros from the central government's Covid-19 fund, is waiting to receive another important transfer of finalist funds and, in addition, the Ministry has announced more than 1 billion euros for reinforce the PA in all the Autonomous Communities. Likewise, they consider it a “mockery” that, for the construction of new health centers , the Ministry headed by Enrique Ruiz Escudero Australia Phone Number states that 30 million euros are available in execution and another 62 million in the process of contracting. The reality, the unions explain, is that the majority of health centers under construction, and a part of those pending contracting, have been announced in previous plans for years and even decades, without having been executed. In addition, the Government of Isabel Díaz-Ayuso has reported that they budget euros for improvement, remodeling and modernization of infrastructure in health centers in two years. “This amount is insufficient to undertake all the urgent and necessary reforms in many of them and the rents paid are not taken into account, even though many centers are located in unhealthy spaces,” they say. “The centers and positions subject to a greater workload or less favorable conditions must be adequately compensated,” say the unions.
Regarding the workforce, the unions of the Sectorial Roundtable agree that it is necessary, in one or two years, to increase the current workforce by more than 2,500 professionals of all categories and another 1,500 more in the next years, to compensate for the unreplenished jobs, as well as retirements. Therefore, the estimated budget increase to correct the workforce deficit must be at least 200 million euros annually. Regarding salary improvements, they say the Government has allocated just under 35 million for two years which, contrary to what has been stated, does not mean a real salary increase. Furthermore, the amount of these payments “will not be a real attraction” for professionals to want to work in the Madrid AP, as the Ministry intends, since the real increases range between The centers and positions subject to a greater workload or less favorable conditions must be adequately compensated and the Ministry has the obligation to immediately improve these deteriorated working and professional conditions,” they conclude.
