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The strike of the special agreement lasts from Monday, October 26.
– During this strike, we have removed very few doctors. This shows how fragile the emergency room is organized in many places in the country, says President Marit Hermansen of the Norwegian Medical Association in a press release.
Stopping a legal labor dispute is serious interference in what is really the responsibility of the parties, the government claims.
– But as the situation developed, I had no choice, says Labor and Social Affairs Minister Henrik Asheim in a press release.
Danger to life and health.
The strike was scheduled to intensify on Monday, and twelve new doctors in six municipalities were due to strike.
In a report, the Norwegian Health Board has assessed the situation in the conflict between the Norwegian Medical Association and KS so that there is danger to life and health when escalation is implemented.
The government points out that in one of the affected municipalities, two out of every three doctors were taken out on strike in total. The municipality was denied a dispensation.
The mediation was broken on October 15 and the first strike went into effect on October 26. There has been no contact between the parties after the infraction in the Ombudsman.
Doctors are demanding that the workload of GPs working on outpatient plans be reduced.
Hasvik received an exemption
Monday’s recall was to include municipalities in districts with a heavy load of emergency rooms.
Hasvik was exempted by the Norwegian Medical Association from the strike, as the municipality is particularly vulnerable. In the municipality there are only two doctors permanently employed, and if one went on strike, it would affect the entire outpatient regime.
Previously, 23 doctors from Bergen, Tromsø, Narvik, Stavanger and Trondheim went on strike.
The last time there was a doctors strike was in 2016. It ended with a forced wage meeting after five weeks of the strike.
