The Ministry of Health has announced that its head, Jeyson Auza, will install dialogue tables with health professionals and workers to analyze your requests. However, He has not specified dates or places for their development.
According to the authority, dialogue is difficult if there are de facto measures that harm the population. “We are going to analyze each one of the petitions to give the pertinent answers in health; We also appeal to the sanity of the mobilized sectors to find a solution to the demands that they could present”, said the minister.
For its part, the Bolivian Medical Association has released a statement this Friday afternoon in which it states that, to suspend the blockade of the thousand services nationwidescheduled for next Tuesday 5, a written call for dialogue will be necessary, which is addressed to that institution.
The country’s doctors ask for: the repeal of the Sanitary Emergency Law, which according to health professionals is not being fulfilled in reality; The payment of salaries of doctors who worked during the pandemic, the provision of items at the national level, the institutionalization of positions and stability of social security.
While the demands of the country’s health workers – who staged a 24-hour strike last Thursday – are labor-related: unrestricted respect for the Health Worker Statute, salary increase, respect for the six-hour working day, compliance with the merit scale, incorporation to the General Law of Labor, that they can receive 100% of their retirement and that they pay them the snack and the life insurance, among other requests.
The Ministry of Health has announced that its head, Jeyson Auza, will install dialogue tables with health professionals and workers to analyze your requests. However, He has not specified dates or places for their development.
According to the authority, dialogue is difficult if there are de facto measures that harm the population. “We are going to analyze each one of the petitions to give the pertinent answers in health; We also appeal to the sanity of the mobilized sectors to find a solution to the demands that they could present”, said the minister.
For its part, the Bolivian Medical Association has released a statement this Friday afternoon in which it states that, to suspend the blockade of the thousand services nationwidescheduled for next Tuesday 5, a written call for dialogue will be necessary, which is addressed to that institution.
The country’s doctors ask for: the repeal of the Sanitary Emergency Law, which according to health professionals is not being fulfilled in reality; The payment of salaries of doctors who worked during the pandemic, the provision of items at the national level, the institutionalization of positions and stability of social security.
While the demands of the country’s health workers – who staged a 24-hour strike last Thursday – are labor-related: unrestricted respect for the Health Worker Statute, salary increase, respect for the six-hour working day, compliance with the merit scale, incorporation to the General Law of Labor, that they can receive 100% of their retirement and that they pay them the snack and the life insurance, among other requests.
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