The team leaders of the emergency room at the Hospital Center of the Algarve did not move forward with resignations this Monday, how they had threatened, and should not. According to Pedro Nunes, chairman of the Board of Directors of CHA, "the situation is completely outdated", including the issue of remuneration for these professionals.
Last Friday, Pedro Nunes met with representatives of the Independent Trade Union of Doctors, who, at a press conference, said that, earlier this week, there would be a new meeting between the Board of Directors and the team leaders. However, this meeting may not take place - because the situation, however, "was clarified".
“There was no meeting and I'm not sure it will happen. The Urgency team leaders expressed their position through the Union, we clarified with the Union and the Union clarified with them: it was a misunderstanding», Pedro Nunes told the Sul Informação.
Despite this, Pedro Nunes says he is available “to clear up the misunderstanding and, if necessary, hold a meeting with the team leaders. We have every taste. However, they were fully enlightened, no one submitted any resignation and the situation is completely outdated».
“I myself took the initiative to talk to one or another team leader I met by chance and asked: “Are you clear?”, “-I'm perfectly clear” [he replied]. We are not going to call a meeting for an issue that was never an issue and now is still another non-issue», he added.
Pedro Nunes explained again that “there was never any intention of giving medical functions to nurses, quite the contrary. The aim was to share administrative functions so as to ease everyone's work. This ended up being noticed by the Union. On the part of the Union, the situation was resolved and on our part it was also resolved».
In addition to clarifying the responsibilities between doctors and nurses, the remuneration of team leaders, 'as such', was also a point of divergence between the two parties. According to the chairman of the Board of CHA, this situation is also resolved. “The law was fulfilled. No hospital in the country was being paid, because there was a doubt about the laws on the State Budget, and we [CHA] raised successive doubts, until there was clarification from ACSS and the General Directorate of Public Administration, in the sense that it was due'.
Payments to team leaders will therefore be made from next month. “We'll pay immediately, but we have to do the calculations, it's not overnight. The Human Resources staff is doing the calculations, I think that starting next month it will start to be paid. As soon as possible, in budgetary terms, the retroactives will be paid, which is something that other hospitals in the country are not doing, but we insist”, he concluded.
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