The Onkologikoa Foundation, under the Kutxa Foundation, has been running the centre for years and although Osakidetza has already taken over the building and health management, the Onkologikoa Foundation continues to pay its workers, although they are currently working under the orders of Osakidetza. Likewise, Onkologikoa serves a much smaller number of patients than it can today, which the company committee of the center qualifies as “irresponsibility”. That is why the workers are concentrating every Thursday at the entrance to Onkologikoa in order to ask the Basque Government to regulate their situation. Today, for example, they have done so, as you can see in this picture:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specifically, this media has spoken to the Works Council and have stressed that: “Osakidetza has come to absorb the Oncology and within this absorption process must also absorb the staff of Onkologikoa.” They have also denounced that they have not been given any explanation of the future of the centre and its workers.

They also regretted that the way in which the centre operates and its own style will be lost: “People have to know that Oncology has been a global reference in its field of work, so in their day we were also awarded the Gold Medal of San Sebastian. Now, however, that is disappearing and is going to disappear. Onkologikoa’s usual way of working and his own style will be interrupted. Upon entering Osakidetza, the good things we did here will disappear, and we will do everything in the style of Osakidetza.” And they add: “The approach is that if an oncology patient is going to be operated, he does it in the hospital, then he is sent to receive treatment and then he returns to the hospital for follow-up, that is, Onkologikoa is going to have the function of an outpatient clinic, without taking proper advantage of the facilities.”