protests against cuts in health do not lose strength. More than a hundred John XXIII hospital employees have turned to concentrate on Wednesday to show their opposition to reducing the budget. The Board staff reports that while Government says no present plans until after the municipal elections shock, cuts "are being applied" in this hospital. Unlike previous protests, on Wednesday for the first time, have added to the concentration of workers in the cleaning of the hospital, which reported that in the last twenty months have not renewed contracts.
The other professionals ensure that hospital beds are closed eighty -54 in recent months and the fifth floor also has stopped working. "We also have closed ten rooms of the department of gynecology" pointed to the ACN Board Member of staff the hospital, the Red Navy.
"We were told that they close down the plant from June 1, but now no longer work and no intention of returning them to open," said Roig, who pointed out that although that the Government has announced cuts in hospital John XXIII is 10% and 16% as reported at first, "saving measures remain viable." Red is also a member of the union Catac, has announced that protests will not stop. "There has been no step back from the government," he lamented.
from the board of the hospital staff have been highlighted saving measures who "are suffering" from last summer. The board members claim that about thirty staff contracts were not renewed. They also indicate that, due to the closure of beds, services and operating rooms, nurses and auxiliaries will be relocated "to the detriment of temporary contracts" to cover vacations and low, and that from June the eventualities that are not renewed contract completion.
Although the government has insisted that the cuts do not harm the quality of health services, the hospital employees John XXIII reminded that this center has stopped giving the patient a bottle of water meals and diets have been removed to mothers pediatric service, among other measures.
from the Board staff also noted that the hours of operating rooms have been reduced. In the field of pediatric surgery ensures that every two weeks and three operating rooms removed from the field of thoracic surgery no longer work in the afternoon. In addition, we also say that since last summer has been left to the physician's ongoing care to hospitalized people at home.
Moreover, nearly one hundred employees of the Primary Care Center (PAC) Sant Pere de Reus also have concentrated on Wednesday morning before the health center and have rallied the streets of downtown until the City Council. One of the leaders in the field of primary UGT, Alfred Maza explained that the CAP also have stopped renewing contracts and that workers fear that the cuts will take place in the coming months "endanger many of the services center."
The original protest, however, took place at the hospital Virgen de la Cinta de Tortosa, where representatives of employers and employees have been concentrated at the health center and have organized a choir singing songs against the cuts. The protests on Wednesday were centrat the reduction amb l'PATINTER that this area of \u200b\u200bthe formation d'Aquest hospital staff.
