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176,000 Doctors Across Spain Begin a Week-Long Strike

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The Corner More than 176,000 doctors from all over Spain—those working within the National Health System—are beginning a week-long strike this Monday to voice their rejection of the “Estatuto Marco” (Framework Statute) negotiated between the Ministry of Health and the unions involved in the negotiating table. For months, as evidenced by previous walkouts and mobilizations, they have been demanding their own specific statute. In addition to this …

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The inaction of Mónica García, whom trade unions and professional collectives accuse of not having met with their medical colleagues to unblock the health labor reform, has marked the beginning of the strike called today throughout the country – the fifth in a year. The lack of direct dialogue with the doctors has been pointed out as one of the main triggers of a strike that is already causing delays, suspended consultations and a growing sensat…

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The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has been facing since Monday the fourth medical strike in a year against the Marco Statute, which has been supported by the majority unions of the health system. In a legislative activity with few precedents in her department, she has just announced a law to avoid the public hospital model of private management such as Torrejón, while her party, More Madrid, advances in a coalition for the generals. The pre…

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Saturday's rally served as a preparation and warning for the strikes that begin on Monday 16 and that, as the Committee announced, it will be extended...

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This Monday begins the fourth medical strike called in less than a year against the Framework Statute that the Ministry of Health has agreed with the generalist unions and that will govern, if the parliamentary process that is before it prospers, the working conditions of the entire staff of the National Health System.The department of Mónica García signed in January the draft with the unions of the Negotiation Area (CSIF, SATSE-FSES, FSS-CCOO a…

·Madrid, Spain
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The optional staff heat up engines for the full stoppage next week after the Minister's departure by negotiating a law behind her back.

The Spanish Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM) wants to show its satisfaction with the high follow-up that is taking place this first day of the national strike week called in February, figures that are around 90% of the estimated follow-up in hospital care and 85% in primary care as an average among all the autonomous communities.

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Libertad Digital broke the news in on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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