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The Union of Nurses of Portugal (SEP) marked this Thursday, at the García de Orta hospital, in Almada, the “exhaustion” with which professionals arrive at night after a year marked by the covid-19 pandemic , demanding permanent measures.
“One of the big problems we have at this stage is the exhaustion of those who are working. Many of those who are working today are doing 12-hour or two-hour shifts instead of one, precisely due to lack of personnel, absence of colleagues, some in isolation, others precisely with covid, “he told the leader of the SEP, Zoraima Meadow.
According to the union leader, what the nurses are demanding “are not prizes, they are measures that recognize risk and pain permanently and constantly and in all contexts,” noting that the prize that is awarded to health professionals ” it is highly discretionary. ” “.
“There are services that they receive in one hospital and do not receive in another. There are colleagues from the same team where some receive and others do not, and the vast majority of nurses who have been responding to this pandemic are left out, ”said the nurse. Lusa.
The union demonstrated this afternoon at the García de Orta hospital, in Almada, Setúbal district, and one of the reasons for the discontent is the discrimination in the award ceremony, since in other hospitals there were “services that were covered”, such as obstetric emergency. , psychiatric and pediatric emergencies, and which, according to the union leader, were not in the Almadense hospital.
Under the Government’s proposal, front-line nurses should benefit from one day of vacation for every 80 hours of normal work and one day of vacation for every 48 hours of overtime during the period of public calamity.
In the García de Orta service, according to the predictions of the trade unionist, who attributes data to the Government, for the moment, “of 101 precarious nurses, only three are linked.”
“It will be an unbearable situation if these nurses are not linked to the institution in the short and medium term,” he added, demanding the integration of all workers in the sector with precarious contracts nationwide.
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