More than 20 potential workers accept relocation

While the federal government and the states of Coahuila and Durango do not provide job certainty to health workers with temporary contracts, there are around 20 people from La Laguna who have already accepted relocation to other entities in the country that did subscribe to the federalization of the healthcare system. health, through the IMSS-Wellbeing.

Yesterday, federal authorities were at the New Hospital of Gómez Palacio and the General Hospital of Torreón so that temporary personnel of the extinct Insabi signed the Personnel Movement Form (FOMOPE) that endorses the extension of its last contract with the Federation, effective as of June 30, 2024.

After that date, Coahuila and Durango will have to offer them a definitive basing proposal or, the staff has the option of moving to other states that joined the IMSS-Bienestar, where they will have a guaranteed space and base.

THEY FEEL FRUSTRATION

Ana Isabel Martínez Vázquez is a general nurse and the federal government made her the offer to go to work at a Specialty Hospital located in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, with the same salary and legal benefits.

He accepted and has to present himself on May 13 of the current year; He will have a temporary contract valid until December 2024, with the promise that he will receive his base in January 2025.

Although she has relatives in that state, Ana Isabel says she feels frustration, because she will have to leave her family and, furthermore, she had just taken out a home loan. Like her, there are other people who accepted her relocation to other states such as Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and Sinaloa.

“They told us that we had to go there or our contract would end on June 30, there is frustration because the families practically stay here and we go there alone, as if to the other side of the state of Coahuila,” express.

DIALOGUE TABLE

In Torreón, yesterday there was a meeting in the auditorium of the General Hospital, between workers and representatives of the Ministry of Health of Coahuila to address the matter and a dialogue table was agreed upon in the coming days.

“It’s not a favor, we just want justice to be done to us. Sit down, analyze, give us an answer as soon as possible, we are desperate, working with anguish, with the stress of not knowing what is going to happen to us. Our lives depend on us. families,” a worker told Coahuila’s Undersecretary of Health Care, Raúl Rodríguez Sánchez.

For his part, Eduardo del Río Castañón, spokesperson for the group of affected health personnel, indicated that they have been pressuring the authorities to give them a solution and that if this is not the case, they will take more energetic measures. He mentioned that the most viable thing is to achieve federal basification since state contracts are awarded with lower salaries.

Rodríguez Sánchez said that the government of Coahuila is seeking to guarantee the work continuity of the workers and that it will be at the next dialogue table that a proposal will be offered but did not provide more details. He commented that in this entity, there are 647 people of different categories who have temporary contracts, of which, 113 are assigned to Health Jurisdiction No. 6 and 55 to Health Jurisdiction No. 7, in La Laguna.

IN GÓMEZ PALACIO

Another meeting was held in the morning in the auditorium of the Hospital Nuevo de Gómez Palacio and the situation is similar to that of Torreón. In this clinic, the staff has more than 20 days with a sit-in. In the New Hospital of Gómez Palacio there are 151 health workers with temporary contracts while in the General Hospital of Lerdo, there are around 50 people and about 70 workers from Health Jurisdiction No. 2. In the entire entity, there are close to 500 health professionals affected. In La Laguna de Durango, health personnel once again sent a letter to Governor Esteban Villegas to explain the problem and request his support.