San Salvador.- The Medical College of El Salvador requested a dialogue with President Nayib Bukele to “resolve legal situations and shortages of personnel, medicines and supplies” in hospitals in the country, according to a statement released by the union.
“We invite you, alone or as it should be with the Minister of Health and his team, to talk about it and resolve the situations,” they stated in the letter and added that “we are not looking for party politics issues.”
President Bukele reacted to a message from a group called Doctors for a Living Wage in El Salvador in which they stated that “we are going to consider the largest national health strike that President Nayib Bukele has ever seen in El Salvador. His re-election is illegal ».
The president pointed out, in a message on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter), that “it is clear that for this association of doctors, patients are not important, nor is the existence or shortage of medicines, nor the equipment, nor the inputs, they are not even interested in fighting for their dismissed colleagues, as they stated a few weeks ago.
“The only thing that interests them is the elections (…) No serious doctor would fall into the trap of these charlatans,” he added.
The Medical Association, which did not specify whether it has any relationship with Doctors for a Living Wage, also pointed out, in response to the message from the head of state, that “the president has shown that he is poorly informed and poorly advised in relation to matters relating to the Health services”.
Said union and the Union of Medical Workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (Simetrisss) denounced last July that their union is “attacked” by actions of the Health authorities.
This complaint comes after the Ministry of Health (Minsal) announced that it will proceed against a group of internal doctors who carried out a work stoppage on July 20 in solidarity with two of their colleagues.
This group requested, according to local media, the restitution of the two people, who were suspended as a result of publications they made on their social networks on May 20, when a human stampede left at least 9 dead in the Cuscatlán stadium, of the Salvadoran capital.
