Overview
- Primary care staff rallied outside the Calle Cuba center on Thursday, alleging worsening working conditions and deteriorating care due to persistent understaffing.
- Seven of the center’s 18 family doctors are absent, all on afternoon shifts, with four temporary leaves and three vacancies after recent transfers and exams, according to Sergas.
- Managers are covering those afternoon slots through overtime by morning-shift physicians, while unions say centers have been told to self-manage absences.
- The Calle Cuba facility serves about 27,000 people, leaving roughly 9,000 without their usual doctor, and reports cite waits exceeding 15 days with added pressure on urgent care and hospital emergency departments.
- Across the Vigo area, the staff committee reports at least 38 unfilled doctor posts, and in A Cañiza a single physician is handling a three-doctor caseload with only sporadic reinforcements and a vacancy expected to be addressed in coming months through public hiring.