The Dominican Medical College (CMD) suspended the work stoppage called for four days in public hospitals starting next Tuesday, demanding a 70% salary increase and other demands, after a meeting with the Health Cabinetheaded by Vice President Raquel Peña, at the National Palace.
The information was released at the close of this edition, in which the president of the CMD, Waldo Ariel Suero agreed to continue the dialogue with the authorities, in order to reach a point of consensus on their demands.
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A note from the Health Cabinet explains that the conversations seek to continue the negotiations to reach agreements between the medical union and the central government, in order to maintain security in the medical care of the Dominican population and promote a dignified environment for doctors.
It indicates that at the end of the meeting, partial agreements were reached on all the doctors’ requests, thus reaffirming the government’s commitment to the well-being of the population.
Also present at the meeting were the Minister of Health, Víctor Atallah; the Minister of Labor, Luis Miguel de Camps; the general director of Promesecal, Rafael Adolfo Pérez; Santiago Hazim, director of Senasa; Miguel Ceara Hatton, superintendent of Health and Occupational Risks and for the CMD, the doctors were represented by Ariel Suero.
Medical claims
The National Board of Directors of Dominican Medical College decided yesterday to paralyze all health services nationwide for 96 hours, starting on Tuesday, November 19 until Friday, the 22nd.
«Last night we had a meeting at the Palace with the authorities, the most pressing issue is the issue of salary readjustment. Our proposal is 70%, the Government’s counterproposal was 10%. We spent two hours talking about it and the Government was very insistent on that 10%,” explained Ariel Suero.
He explained that the proposal raised by the government It is below the expectations of the Dominican Medical College.
He maintained that this 10% represents about 6,000 pesos, which, after legal discounts, is reduced to just over 2,000 pesos.
“We are not going to last 11 months of dialogue and in the end come with two thousand or so pesos,” he commented.
According to the pediatric cardiologist, “there has been an avalanche of displeasure among doctors, of dissatisfaction, they feel mocked with this proposal and the Board of Directors met on an emergency basis, the only topic being the salary readjustment and the response that the Government, and we resolved to hold a national strike for 96 hours, four days, on Tuesday the 19th, Wednesday the 20th, Thursday the 21st and Friday the 22nd.
