Overview
- The coordinated national strike is running this week from Monday to Friday, 15–19 June, with Catalonia holding a separate one‑day stoppage on Wednesday the 17th.
- The Ministry of Health has declined to withdraw the Anteproyecto del Estatuto Marco and has left the text in public consultation ahead of a late‑June deadline.
- Sixteen autonomous communities have publicly asked the ministry to reopen urgent talks with medical professionals to try to unblock the dispute.
- Unions say the walkouts have led to more than three million cancelled appointments, tests or operations nationwide while regional tallies show heavy local damage such as 1.3 million cancelled acts and about €173 million of costs in Andalusia and roughly 250,000–251,000 cancelled acts in Galicia.
- A strike committee made up of six medical unions (CESM, SMA, Metges de Catalunya, AMYTS, SME and O’MEGA) says it will suspend heavy escalation over the summer but will announce plans for an indefinite strike after the break if the draft law proceeds unchanged.