The INEM did not request the reinforcement of minimum services throughout the public sector due to the strike declared by the National Federation of Independent Public Administration Unions (FESINAP) nor did it question that the prior notice of strike by the Union of Prehospital Emergency Technicians (STEPH) during overtime did not indicate minimum services. The result was a 10-year low number of calls answered, which is reportedly linked to about nine deaths in the country.
A 90-year-old man dies in Pombal after an hour without a response from 112. This will be the ninth case of deaths related to delays at the INEM
According to Público, which reports the news this Saturday, in October FESINAP decreed a strike for November 4, last Monday, and in the notice given to the INEM, the minimum services were established in an indicative manner: the number of workers in the The work would have to be “equal to that guaranteed by operation on Sundays in the night shift, during the normal holiday season.” But the INEM could have asked for an increase in minimum services, given that at the same time there was an overtime strike called by the Union of Prehospital Emergency Technicians (STEPH), so the lack of minimum services was not questioned by the INEM. .
To request an increase in minimum services, the INEM would have to request the intervention of the DGAEP (General Directorate of Administration and Public Employment). But he didn’t do it. For Público, the INEM questions the need to make this request, arguing that there was a collective bargaining agreement, signed in 2011, with the National Federation of Public Services Unions, which affected the CGTP, and which defined the minimum services – which They should represent 80% of the number of professionals planned for this shift.
But the federation that declared the strike was not linked to the 2011 collective agreement, so experts consulted by the newspaper consider that FESINAP was not linked to those minimum services. The INEM has a different understanding: the collective agreement remains in force, given that there was no known “express opposition” from the federation that called the strike or from “non-unionized workers or even other union associations interested and with legitimacy to celebrate the collective agreement of job”. ”.
On Monday, the number of professionals who answered emergency calls did not respect the minimum services that were determined by FESINAP. According to Público, neither FESINAP nor the INEM have designated the list of workers who must guarantee minimum services.
INEM. The union gave the Minister of Health ten days to negotiate before going on strike, but received no response.
Source: Observadora
