Andalucia

The CCOO, CSIF and UGT unions have demanded from the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) “sufficient” staff to deal with the double vaccination campaign against flu and Covid-19 started this Monday in residences and centers for people with disabilities or those over 85 years of age for “do not overload more deficient and exhausted staff“.

Thus, in an audio distributed to the media, Daniel Gutiérrez, from the SAS Union Action Area of ​​the Federation of Health and Social and Health Sectors of CCOO of Andalusia, pointed out that this campaign begins in a “very difficult” situation for Andalusian public health “after a summer of cuts in healthcare activity and closure of agendas that has increased delays in primary care.”

“We continue to encounter many health centers where there are no appointments for more than two weeks, and this is compounded by the loss of hundreds of Covid contracts and the saturation of professionals,” he noted, adding that The Ministry of Health “wants to increase the number of vaccines by 7.5%a laudable objective, but for which it will have to be provided with the appropriate means and not overburden more deficient and exhausted staff.

From the CSIF health sector they have demanded the provision of “sufficient” personnel of all the categories that are involved in the campaign, “from guard drivers, who work in warehouses to provide vaccines and materials and transport the vaccines, to administrative staff at customer service points in health centers that consult the population, such as TCAE, nurses and doctors. “These campaigns mean an increase in workloads for all of them,” he stressed.

For their part, UGT has criticized the “lack” of human resources in the face of the vaccination campaign, which, in his opinion, represents “one more twist for our saturated primary care that is already in a precarious situation, with a delay of at least 10-15 days for a consultation, very far from the 48-72 hours that the counseling wants to sell us.

Furthermore, in a month of October in which “the eventual 12,000 may be less than half”, and contracts of all categories have “disappeared” in all centers. “A situation that is getting worse and worse and that is one more step to justify the privatization of services and the increase in expenses on concerts,” indicated the secretary of the Health Sector, Socio-sanitary Services and Dependency of the Federation of Employees. of Public Services (FeSP) of UGT Andalucía, Antonio Macías.

He added, in statements to Europa Press, that to the “increase” in the workload, “we must add the increase in pathologies specific to the coming dates” and that “it coincides with this reduction in temporary staff that has not been renewed “. “This will cause an increase in waiting lists, already unfortunately growing, and which are not even remotely close to those idyllic two or three days that only exist in the imagination of our counselor,” she concluded.

Last week, the Nursing Union, Satse, in Andalusia demanded that the SAS have the necessary nursing professionals to undertake this work without the need to reduce the rest of the daily care activity of the health centers or “overload” their staff. professionals, even more This year the number of doses has increased by 7.5% more than in the previous campaign, reaching 2.2 million.

Satse considers it “essential” to reinforce the nursing workforce and hire specific personnel to carry out this campaign, which is added to the bronchiolitis campaign in children under six months of age, which began on September 25.

2023-10-09 11:47:53
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