About 650 state hospital docs, set to obtain €19.1 million over and above their salaries, additional time and allowances, to maintain up financially with their non-public sector friends, are to go on strike demanding an additional €2 million be added to that quantity, a transfer state well being companies Okypy says might value lives.
Pasyki union introduced a 48-hour strike for the tip of the month, after a gathering on Wednesday did not result in an settlement.
“We take into account the strike pointless as a result of the one factor it should obtain is inconvenience for sufferers. We’re very involved in regards to the announcement that they could embrace the emergency and accident departments, as a result of if this occurs it’s attainable that lives will probably be in peril,” state well being companies (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou instructed the Cyprus Mail.
Okypy, he added, had “religion within the docs and we imagine they are going to take all essential measures in order that no lives are in peril.”
Charilaou mentioned there was an settlement in place, by which each side agreed publicly {that a} examine by an unbiased agency concerning the extra monetary incentives for 2023 can be accepted and binding.
Wednesday’s assembly additionally aimed toward discussing 2024 as a transition interval and to agree on a brand new incentive plan for 2025-2027, which might be in keeping with the intention of the organisation for monetary autonomy, Charilaou added.
“Sadly, the docs wished to debate 2023 solely and didn’t settle for the results of the unbiased audit agency, which was €2.5 million, and demanded €4.5 million, which was one thing that would not be accepted and they also walked out,” Charilaou mentioned.
He famous that underneath the 2023 incentives, docs have already acquired €16.6 million, which didn’t account for Okypy’s monetary targets or income. “With the extra €2.5 million, the quantity would attain €19.1 million. The docs insist on €21.1 million,” he added.
Charilaou defined this quantity can be shared out amongst 650 to 700 docs and mentioned there was no room for Okypy to change its stance.
“The motivation plan was given on the outset of Gesy as a result of we had a large exodus of docs from state hospitals to the non-public sector” to signal contracts with Gesy as non-public docs, he mentioned.
One more reason for the motivation plan was to bridge the hole between the earnings of personal and state docs, Charilaou added.
“In the present day, the cash our docs in state hospitals are receiving compares favourably with the income of personal docs, who moreover have the duty to pay lease, rent workers, be self-employed, not be entitled to sick depart or annual depart inter alia,” he mentioned.
Charilaou mentioned {that a} re-evaluation of the present system signifies that “it wants revising.”
“The brand new system we’re pursuing in cooperation with the docs is a system that will probably be in keeping with the goals of the organisation, which is its monetary autonomy,” he mentioned.
Charilaou added that the cupboard, which convened on Thursday, authorised “an motion plan that will probably be monitored for Okypy, in order that by the tip of 2026 it should have develop into financially autonomous.”
Talking after Thursday’s cupboard assembly, Well being Minister Michael Damianos mentioned the plan aimed toward rising income, decreasing prices, paying for companies, investing capital and making structural adjustments.
Damianos mentioned that every one concerned events have arrange a workgroup, which is able to consider progress.
On Wednesday, Pasyki introduced the 48-hour strike for the tip of the month after negotiations failed. Pasyki head Sotiris Koumas described the proposed €2.5 million as a “disgraceful and offensive sum.”
