Tension is rising within the Canary Islands' public healthcare system. The group of administrative assistants from the Canarian Health Service (SCS) has announced pressure measures to demand an "urgent reclassification" of their professional category from group C2 to C1. They consider this demand "fair and unpostponable" given the increasing functions and responsibilities they handle daily in hospitals and health centers.
The Platform of Administrative Assistants of the SCS gathered this Tuesday outside the Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín hospital. They denounced that the current classification "no longer reflects the labor reality" of a group that, they assert, has become a key piece in the healthcare machinery. "We are the organizational and administrative support for a large part of daily care activity," they state in a press release, insisting that their work goes far beyond the basic tasks historically attributed to group C2.
In practice, administrative assistants manage health schedules, coordinate hospital services, process complex clinical documentation, operate advanced corporate applications, and participate directly in sensitive areas such as waiting lists or communication between care units. The group complains that this evolution of functions has not been accompanied by professional or financial recognition commensurate with the real responsibility they hold within the public healthcare system.
Reclassification to group C1 is not a privilege, but a matter of labor justice.
The organizers have requested an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. The platform warns that mobilizations will continue if they do not receive an institutional response, and they assure they will continue "making visible the situation of a collective essential for the functioning of public healthcare in the Canary Islands."
