The union announced the start of protests in Ceuta, which will begin this Thursday with an action at the University Hospital of Ceuta. The protest will be under the slogan: 'For public health, dignity of workers and patients,' according to the union's statement.
Furthermore, the union has planned another action in front of the Territorial Administration of Ingesa on September 18 and a healthcare strike on September 24.
CEMSATSE stated that 'the constant inaction of the Ministry of Health leaves us no choice but the most extreme conflict measure.' The union expresses its 'absolute rejection of the statements by the Ministry of Health, in which it tries to deny the emergency situation affecting the state healthcare system in the autonomous city.'
CEMSATSE asserts that, considering the ministry's position irresponsible and detached from the real state of care, it refutes the ministry's position and announces the immediate activation of the mobilization schedule, which will conclude with a strike in Ceuta on September 24.
In the union's opinion, the state of healthcare in Ceuta 'is not just at its limit, but has exceeded its operational capacity due to structural problems that the Ministry is not solving, as well as due to the collapse caused by serving immigrants after the mass influx in July.'
The government of the autonomous city of Spain reported on Friday that about 13,000 people, including adults and children, remain in Ceuta after more than 70,000 migrants illegally entered the city between July 30 and 31. This figure was disclosed by the president of the autonomous government, Juan Jesús Vivás, and was obtained through official counts of various living places and estimates in camps, such as beaches and mountains.
