Overview
- The four-day walkout runs Oct 30–31 and Nov 3–4, called to secure recognition as a regulated health profession, university-level training and Group B pay.
- Galicia’s health service reported 62.07% participation on Friday morning after 58% in Thursday’s morning shift and nearly 93% in the afternoon.
- Laboratories and imaging units deferred non-urgent work, leaving thousands of blood vials and other samples unprocessed and forcing repeat tests, with mammograms and X-rays also postponed.
- Regional authorities set minimum services for urgent care, oncology, blood donation and non-deferrable tests and said compliance was 100% on day one in Galicia.
- Demonstrations filled streets in cities such as Barcelona and A Coruña, with a central march set for Madrid on Nov 3, as union leaders warn they may escalate to an open-ended strike without concrete progress.