Overview
- An Oct. 17 assembly rejected Sergas’s second proposal, which added a third on‑call doctor only on Mondays and tied weekday reinforcement to resident seniority with no weekend plan.
- Roughly 24–25 of the 27 radiologists who staff on‑call shifts are participating, keeping the work stoppage in place across CHUVI.
- About 100 scheduled imaging tests are being suspended each day, and more than 1,500 programmed exams have gone undone in two weeks, including the halt of October’s extra-hours plan.
- Hospital leadership argues a permanent third on‑call would cut next‑day capacity and says there are no radiologists available to hire, while the service reports five vacancies.
- Radiologists maintain that urgent demand has climbed sharply, citing an 80% rise in CT requests and years of growing workload, and they have called a public protest for Oct. 20 at the MARCO museum.