New schedule and strike paralyze hospitals – Society

Nurses, assistants and health technicians have returned since Sunday to 35 hours of work per week. There are professionals, however, subject to 40 hours. A situation that led the Minister of Health, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, to specify that hours worked above 35 hours will have to be paid as extra work.

"If you practice 40 hours in a regime of 35, these hours will have to be considered as overtime, of course," said Adalberto Campos Fernandes.

For the gun of the Medical Association, Miguel Guimarães, He created a series of serious disorders and gave, for example, the hospital São João in Porto, where 70 hospital beds , operating rooms and intensive care beds were closed.

The month of July is also marked by the beginning of the nurses. indeterminate overtime. Paralysis with impact in the hospitals of western and central Lisbon, as well as in different hospitals, such as Garcia de Orta (Almada), Guimarães or Barreiro-Montijo, reported the Independent Union of Nursing Professionals.
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Miguel Guimarães confirmed that an investigation is underway at the National Data Protection Commission, with several trips to the Barreiro unit