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MADRID, 28 ( EUROPA PRESS) The director-general of the Spanish Federation of Pharmaceutical distributors (FEDIFAR), Miguel Valdés, said that not be envisaged problems of scarcity in pharmacies and hospitals, during the general strike called by CCOO and UGT Thursday in rejecting the labor reform approved by the Government. “All distribution companies have adopted measures, they have warned pharmacies to they load a little stock in order for this Wednesday; thereby not be envisaged problems of scarcity”, pointed to Europa Press. The biggest problem, adds, can occur when the demands of special or urgent medicines; to avoid this, continued, “it is vital to maintain open routes”. This is precisely why you which they have asked the Ministry of health, social services and equality that in establishing the percentage of minimum services respects the request of the employer considers, “to ensure the supply of medicines to the offices of Pharmacy and, therefore, the supply of medicines to the population”It is necessary to have, as a minimum, with 50 per cent of the templates in the workplace. “We need that the operation will be almost normal,” explained, because providing for “next to normal” demand, if they take into account that their estimates, after consultation with the sector involved, show that “a significant percentage doctors in general come to work, and the same goes for the offices of Pharmacy”. Specifically, consider hospitals and...

MADRID, 28 ( EUROPA PRESS) Services minimum in public health during the general strike on Thursday will be on a Sunday or public holiday in most of the communities autonomous, similar to the qualified for the last stop general, held in September 2010. A similar situation is expected in private healthcare. As general rule, to be considered a basic and essential, essential service care will remain as a normal day in units such as dialysis, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, transplants, UCI, resuscitation, coronary units or cleaning and emergency transport in areas of risk services. Also, in some communities, such as Andalusia, Extremadura, Murcia, the Canary Islands, Catalonia or Navarre, MRSA and hospital emergencies will also work as a normal day, while they will work as one Sunday in others, as in Valencia or Basque country. Also as a Sabbath or a holiday will work, in general lines, specialties and health centres and the rest of non-urgent hospital care and other services as kitchens, switchboards, cleaning or collected waste. In this case, the regional governments believe that health care is ensured. However, convening unions, UGT and CC.OO., they have challenged the minimum services established by the respective regional Governments in Balearic Islands, Castilla y León, Basque country, considering them “abusive and disproportionate”, while in Aragon pending agreement. Private health by what refers to private healthcare, the National Federation of private...