All patients know their reference doctors and nurses and have a "direct and fast" relationship with them, according to the staff of Osakidetza from the rural villages of Álava. "This reference between workers and patients is essential for the development of quality primary care. And it must remain that way."

The workers themselves have denounced that Osakidetza, in collaboration with the OSIs of Álava, is proposing a rotation system according to the needs arising for the professionals of the same group to travel on an outpatient basis. In other words, they point out that the offices will be rotated. Workers consider it a "clear attack" on health care: "This situation would mean removing the relationship between patients and the reference health staff. It will seriously harm the quality of care, in addition to infringing the rights of rural workers".

Almost 60,000 signatures have already been gathered between employees and platform members via the portal change.org.

According to the LAB trade union, Osakidetza continues with the intention of neglecting rural villages or with the roadmap, leaving the workers aside. ELA, for its part, stresses that Osakidetza has been engaged for 25 years in partial contracts for continuous care on weekends in the rural area of Alavesa, in addition to temporary contracts. They called for the protest on 27 April, together with the trade unions SATSE, SME, ESK, UGT, CCOO and SAE.

Mosaic to precipitate the protest called on 22 April

Members of the platform Salud Pública Aurrera have denounced that the situation of Public Health is "chaotic" this weekend in the plaza de la Virgen Blanca de Vitoria. Thus, the Bedi radio has received the following statements: "Fundamental primary care in disease prevention does not have enough professionals, and in some neighborhoods and villages it does not exist. We have professionals who perform tasks that do not correspond to them and that have too many patients, which means that patients cannot access face-to-face care, generating disappointment".

Thus, it has been called upon to participate in the demonstrations to be held on 22 April in the three capitals of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.