Doctors end this Thursday, July 27, the three-day national strike to demand concrete proposals from the Government on the enhancement of the career and salary scales in the negotiations that have been taking place since 2022 and which should continue on Friday.
Despite this national stoppage ending today, the doctors' protest continues with the strikes of family doctors at overtime until August 22 and the additional production of the National Health Service (SNS) hospitals.
According to the Independent Doctors Union (SIM), which guarantees that adherence in the first two days was around 90% globally, the strike was intended to force the Government to present concrete proposals in the negotiations that have been taking place for over a year on the revision of the salary tables.
Another round of negotiations is scheduled for Friday, but SIM and the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM) guaranteed, last week, that they would only be available to attend the meeting if they received the proposals in advance, which the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro, assured that it would happen.
On Wednesday, SIM handed over a letter to the Prime Minister at the São Bento Palace with a "very strong appeal" for the Government to implement its proposals for the new regime of full dedication, emergency services, organization and discipline of medical work and the review of the salary scale, matters that are on the negotiating table between the parties.
«After exceeding the formally established negotiating deadline, the Government, irresponsibly, declined to present concrete negotiating proposals», the letter also mentions, warning that in Portugal there has been an «erosion of more than 22% of medical salaries in the last 10 years”.
The doctors' protest continues on the 1st and 2nd of August, with a new national strike called by the FNAM, the second marked by the union structure in about a month, after the stoppage that took place on the 5th and 6th of July.
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