Doctors accuse the Government of wanting to pay extra work at the price of normal work
The National Federation of Doctors (Fnam) accuses the Government of wanting to pay for additional work at the price of normal work, without maximum limits until the end of the year, compromising the safety of patients .
In a statement sent at the end of this Monday, about which Lusa asked the Ministry of Health for a reaction, Fnam accuses the guardianship of having presented it with a proposal for a decree-law that “intends to pay the additional work at the price of normal work, with no maximum limits until the end of the year”.
According to Fnam, the proposal, presented in a remote meeting to which it was called “in a hurry”, on Friday night, by the guardianship, “once again violating the rules of collective bargaining “, puts “the safety of patients at risk, condemning doctors to exhaustion”.
The Fnam claims that the draft diploma will be taken to the Council of Ministers on Thursday without having been negotiated with the unions and is classified “incorrectly” as an appreciation of the performance of overtime, after The legal annual limit has been reached – 150 hours or 250 hours in the case of full-time doctors.
“(…) In fact, this work is now paid at the price of normal work, associated with a ‘reward’ only if blocks of 40 hours of additional work are achieved”, says the statement, released after the On Saturday, Fnam appealed to doctors not to work more than 150 annual overtime hours or 250 if they were fully dedicated.
The union structure threatens a new general strike and a stoppage of overtime in health centers, on dates to be defined, if the negotiating protocol with the supervision “does not include some of the solutions are the actions that Fnam defends” to have more doctors in the National Health Service.
