- The union denounces that the collapse of the Emergency Service was due to “lack of foresight” and “lack of organization” and stresses that the management of Osasunbidea must ensure the presence of sufficient personnel in the Emergency Service.
Patient demand continues to grow and more doctors are needed for patients to receive quality care. ELA denounces that the Emergency Department of the University Hospital of Navarra has been in a state of collapse since January 2: “There are more than 25 people waiting to be hospitalized in the stretchers in the hallways, some of them await an entire day.” He says it happened because of lack of foresight and lack of organization, and asks the Osasunbidea Directorate to “take responsibility” and “put solutions”.
The professionals of the University Hospital of Navarra have pointed out that caring for all patients means “lengthening waiting times” and “impairing the quality of intimacy and patient care”. Doctors work with overtime and double shifts to cover workers’ casualties. Service professionals emphasize that the situation is being “difficult”.
Flexibilisation of measures
In Osakidetza, for its part, the year 2024 has been initiated in an attempt to solve the problem of the lack of doctors, according to Deia. For this reason, the Basque Health Service has announced in the resolution published on Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country the flexibilization of the measures of incorporation of foreign professionals, highlighting the temporary hiring.