This stoppage, which will run from eight in the morning on Monday, April 27, until the same time the next day, includes both public and private healthcare personnel. The demands focus on improving working conditions and care quality, seeking to halt the degradation that, according to professionals, both users and workers in public healthcare are experiencing.
“"We find administrations resistant to our demands. The Catalan administration does not even sit down to talk with us, thinking that, surely, by ignoring us, the conflict will disappear due to exhaustion."
The union accuses the administration of disregarding the voice of medical personnel, promoting debate spaces where their participation is diluted, instead of convening the medical board established after the 2023 strike. This situation, according to the organizers, demonstrates a clear lack of real negotiation will on the part of the Department of Health.
Coinciding with the strike, a demonstration has been organized in Barcelona, starting at 10:30 AM from the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and ending on Sardenya street, in front of the Sagrada Familia. This mobilization is also part of a nationwide strike call, from April 27 to 30, due to disagreements with the Ministry of Health over the sector's framework statute, demanding a 35-hour workweek and the elimination of 24-hour shifts.
The minimum services decreed by the Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat guarantee the normal functioning of emergencies, special units (ICU, coronary, hemodialysis, neonatology), urgent radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments, and unavoidable surgical interventions. Emergency care at CAPs, CUAPs, PACs, and PADES is also ensured with a 25% staff allocation, as well as the operation of on-call and night pharmaceutical services, and medical transport for emergencies and vital treatments.
