The Hall of Mirrors of the Palacio de San Telmo, the seat of the Andalusian Government, solemnly welcomed the signing of the third social consultation agreement with trade unions and businessmen. CCOO, UGT and the Andalusian Confederation of Businessmen stood up to the national climate where the CEOE declared it difficult to engage in pension reform and the agreement to allocate the costs of the crisis continued without progress. In Andalusian society, President Juan Manuel Moreno, together with the general secretaries of UGT and CCOO Carmen Castilla and Nuria López, and the head of the employers’ association Javier González de Lara, signed this agreement, which reached 9,000 people. million euros and also a special section for public health care When the protests in Andalusia intensified due to the administration of the Ministry of Health.
The deal includes a point that protects its target. 25% of Andalusia Healthcare (SAS) Budget primary careGuaranteed 3,370 million euros. The CCOO leader also assured that the deal includes “that Andalusia will bet to defend public health” in situations “highlighted by the pandemic, as well as by decisions taken by the Community Government”.
The document returns to: limit the use of private healthcare concerts to emergencies and exceptions and López continued, “this circumscribes the exceptional situation well.” It also rewrites the already qualified, controversial order initiated by the Ministry of Health that allows the use of hospital centers and primary consultations from private insurance companies to doctors. “Public facilities are guaranteed not to be used by private companies,” the CCOO leader argued. The Andalusian president said, “The government is a universal, public and free health care”. The unions CCOO, UGT and CSIF held protests that will continue on Thursday (March 16th). The unions ensure that they will not ease the pressure until the order is changed again and the agreements signed by the Andalusian president are reflected.
The document states “an Andalusian agreement for primary care” and includes that “with existing arrangements, the protection of non-outsourcing of primary health care, except in health emergencies outside the possible scope of public services,” is guaranteed. This means that “any publicly funded infrastructure, diagnostic tool or healthcare service will be used exclusively by the Andalusian public health system”. The approved text, “a change in all” The decision, published in the Official Journal of the Andalusian Junta (BOJA), was once corrected and the unions realized that it had to be reconsidered.
The Andalusian president appreciated that the signing of this third social agreement in society “is important because of the context in which the agreement was signed, which makes it even more valuable”. It is the common response of Andalusia at a time struggling with uncertainties and difficulties,” he said. thanking unions and employers for their “high vision and sense of responsibility”. Moreno acknowledged that the imminent May elections make everyone “very excited” and underlined his commitment to implement an “immediate plan for youth employment” along with the health deal.
Moreno had already appealed to the unions last November, when economic and social agencies reopened negotiations with the Andalusian Government and the health war had already begun. So the main reason for the friction was the renewal of 12,000 non-extended covid contracts. Soon after, the Board pledged to renew its entire staff of doctors and nurses with contracts ranging from six months to one year. Now, the decision that regulates concert fees in private health and opens the door for the spread of this formula to primary health care services for the first time is fueling this conflict. A regulatory framework that added the most representative Andalusian Medical Association to the protests had already reached an agreement with Salud to cancel their protest after the protest. promise to reduce patients’ schedule to a maximum of 35 per day, 25, as a result of various measures taken to improve wages and job stability for the workforce, in the case of pediatricians. The order, once fixed and now changed again, has broken the truce and now the Board is trying to redirect it.