Medical doctors at public hospitals are occurring a 48-hour strike subsequent week after failing to achieve an settlement with state well being companies organisation (Okypy), it emerged on Wednesday.
The strike will go forward on July 2 and three, and unions are weighing more durable measures resembling shutting down A&E departments.
“A 48-hour strike is one thing which hasn’t occurred in 20 years. Issues aren’t so easy,” head of Pasyki union Sotiris Koumas advised CNA.
Although there may be nonetheless disagreement on whether or not to close down A&E departments, Koumas mentioned there are different suppliers who provide the service exterior of public hospitals that people can head to ought to the necessity come up.
Unions Pasydy and Pasyki in a joint assertion mentioned this was the one method ahead after Okypy’s “uncompromising stance”.
Okypy on Tuesday despatched each unions a proposal, which they described as “provocative” with an boastful tone.
“Past the truth that it’s not adequate, sadly it entails a degrading and offensive stance by Okypy’s board and its organisation in direction of docs,” Koumas advised CNA.
“This can be met with a response.”
In accordance with Koumas, Okypy’s arguments are fully refuted. He mentioned if income is decreased by six per cent, then it is senseless that returns to docs are slashed by 26 per cent.
“They want to reply to this. As a substitute of appreciating that we gave them per week to resolve, they thought-about it a weak spot.”
Koumas referred to as on the well being minister to become involved, although he’s at present hospitalised.
“We recognise he’s unwell and we apologise. We want him effectively however the well being ministry should become involved not directly. It can not contemplate itself out of the equation.
“Public hospitals nonetheless belong to the state.”
Okypy merely manages them and has fully failed in doing so, Koumas added.
Pasyki took offence at Okypy’s use of the time period ‘productive items’ which was talked about within the proposal.
“These males at Okypy want to grasp that it’s these productive items that produce and guarantee all of us receives a commission. They’re there to assist and assist docs not information them.”
The dispute revolves across the physician’s pay. They declare that Okypy has ‘cheated’ on reimbursing them for work accomplished in 2023 by arbitrarily deciphering an settlement in place that issues remuneration based mostly on an incentives system.
Medical doctors obtain two sorts of incentives – horizontal (given to all) and vertical (based mostly on efficiency). Extra time is a part of the horizontal incentives.
