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The Ministry of Health has summoned the Autonomous Communities for 9 April to discuss the medical strike

This Friday, a regular plenary session will be held to report on the preliminary draft laws on the governance of patients and the National Health System.

SAN SEBASTIÁN, 17/03/2026.- Médicos se han manifestado este martes frente al Hospital Donostia durante la huelga general convocada por ELA, LAB y otros sindicatos vascos, en demanda de un salario mínimo interprofesional (SMI) propio. EFE/ Javier Etxezarreta
Doctors' protest on the last strike. Photo: EITB

The Spanish Ministry of Health has convened for 9 April the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System to discuss the medical strike with the Autonomous Communities. The doctors have held two one-week strikes in February and March to reject the reform of the Framework Statute and to declare their own Statutory Framework.

Earlier this Friday, 27 March, an interterritorial meeting will be held to discuss various decrees, and the Basque Government has asked the Ministry of Health to put on the agenda the impact that the medical strike is having on the public health system.

Doctors request a text of their own, a Framework Statute of their own, a text of their own that recognizes the "special conditions of training, activity and responsibility" of doctors and practitioners. The Ministry of Health rejects this possibility because it would "break cohesion and create inequalities" in the National Health System.

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