The union’s president, Rufino Senén, explained that the measure is due to the fact that they have not yet received a response from the authorities regarding their old claim to raise the rates and fees paid to doctors for their services offered to patients affiliated with the Health Risk Administrators (ARS).

The CMD also authorized specialized surgical and related societies, including Anesthesiology, to promote the initiatives they deem pertinent to ensure that other pending requests with the ARS are attended to.

As a result of the explosion that occurred in August in the municipality of San Cristóbal, which left 34 dead and more than 50 injured, the CMD decided to stop the partial work stoppages in solidarity with the inhabitants of that territory and those affected days later by the passage of Tropical Storm Franklin swept across the country for nearly nine hours.

Caba maintained that the Social Security Council and the Government “had time to develop a viable and decent proposal for the benefit of social security affiliates, incorporating care and drugs into the Health Services Plan that generate significant changes in the catalog of different regimes, and at the same time improve the fees for providers”.

The CMD announced at the beginning of August a new partial interruption of work in response to their demands, but later decided to suspend them due to the difficult days that the country experienced mainly due to the tragedy in San Cristóbal.

Together with the specialized medical societies, the CMD resumed the fight several months ago against the ARS and after holding talks with health authorities for four months, which failed.

Both organizations demand the creation of a basic universal health plan, unified fee rates and the promulgation of a new Social Security law, based on the right to quality health.

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