The longest strike of British doctors protesting working conditions

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The British NHS health care system is in a permanent crisis. Now young doctors in England have stopped work for six whole days and are demanding 35% more pay. The British conservative government believes that this is intolerable.

Now British doctors want to strike in protest against bad working conditions. There has never been such a long strike by junior doctors in the UK health care system: starting this Wednesday, junior doctors in England will stop work for six days as previously announced.

These strikes are at the most difficult time of the year for hospitals, when people with infectious diseases such as flu and corona are added to all the people who need treatment in the hospital anyway.

Stephen Powis, the medical director of the NHS in England, believes that thousands of treatment sessions will have to be canceled in the shadow of these strikes. He stressed: “There will be emergency care, but the people whose appointments are now being postponed are in addition to the 1.2 million patients who are being treated and are on the waiting list.

The British health service is under severe pressure. The waiting lists are getting longer and longer, there is a shortage of money, there are very few staff and positions cannot be filled.

About half of the doctors who work in hospitals , doctors are young, which means they belong to the professional group that is now leaving work for more money. Young doctors want fair wages. The British Medical Association (BMA) advocacy group wants a 35% pay rise. It is said that the increase will only guarantee the level of income of 2008.

The UK government argues that it cannot afford the increase. And it has announced that these strikes will only exacerbate the problems in the NHS.. Over the past 13 years, the Conservative government has significantly reduced the cost of the health service, even experts say: the government has overwhelmed the NHS with austerity measures. It has destroyed.

The situation is so catastrophic that even many patients sympathize with the doctors. A female patient interviewed outside a hospital in Kent said the young doctors were working very hard. They were helping people and they just went on strike because there really was no other way.

In a study by the Public Policy Research think tank, the authors concluded that The deficits in health services are so large that it will take ten years to make up for them and reduce waiting lists to 2010 levels.

The article also states that half of people The respondents have even declared that they would pay more taxes if this could eliminate the deficits of the public sector, including health services. has not brought British Health Secretary Victoria Atkins called on young doctors to return to the negotiating table. The government is worried about the widespread impact of these strikes and worsening conditions.

Recently, “junior doctors” in England stopped work for three days in December, in the shadow of This strike canceled 88,000 appointments. An agreement has already been reached in Scotland, more strikes are likely to take place in Wales this month, and in Northern Ireland a vote by junior doctors on whether to strike is still pending.

The British health system is in a very pathetic condition. Not long ago, the British newspapers The Guardian and The Times, as well as Al Jazeera, took a look at the British National Health Service from different angles and described it as the number of people who die while waiting for treatment in England is a national tragedy; “Unprecedented numbers of painful people spend the last months of their lives in agony, waiting for a cure that never comes”; “Children are the forgotten victims of the waiting list crisis for treatment”; “The mental stress that GPs endure is unbelievable”; “In some cases, receiving essential and life-saving medical services depends on the color of the person’s skin or where they live”, “340 thousand people died while waiting for treatment in 2022”, “What the government has done to the health system is nothing but a “national scandal”” And …; Descriptions that we read in reports about the British national health care system; It is a system that has been working for years with a lack of manpower and equipment, the promises of the government to solve the problems and the massive strike of the employees. Their pay rises have not kept up with high inflation amid the UK’s cost of living crisis. Britain’s health sector is suffering from a workforce shortage due to years of budget cuts. Thus, medical professionals are forced to work longer hours without support and have no time to rest. In 2022, 340,000 people on NHS waiting lists could die. This figure is more than 60% of all deaths in England.

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