Overview
- The Health Ministry, which suspended a joint meeting with the strike committee and regional health chiefs Thursday, said one party failed to honor an accord.
- Union leaders said they were not responsible for the cancellation and called for Minister Mónica García to resign.
- The ministry’s draft would cap doctors’ weeks at 45 hours now, dropping to 42 in three years and 40 in five, and it would restrict shifts longer than 17 hours.
- The national stoppage from April 27–30 remains scheduled, with the Castilla‑La Mancha branch of CESM calling 7,500 physicians to take part.
- Regional tensions are rising, with Galicia’s Sergas reprogramming patient appointments that unions call a mass cancellation, and Aragón unions filing a Labor Inspectorate complaint over bad‑faith bargaining.