The European currency claims mental and physical health measures in health

European trade unions will not stop their efforts to pressure Brussels To design a joint legal framework against Psychological and social risks and Muscle and bone disorders In the health field. he European Economic and Social Committee On Wednesday, the first meeting of a group of work security experts in the European Union for Workers’ Syndicates for Public Services (EphusBecause of its abbreviation in the English language), a date came, among other things, the commitment to continue the payment to give the European Commission, in the first place, and parliament, in the second, the green light of two guidelines to allow the protection of mental and physical health for workers in the field of public health.

And he said to Medical writing Yolanda GilleVice President of Epsu, Youth and International President from FSS-CCOO One of the members of the Federation’s Group of Union in the Union Federation who met in Brussels. The meeting was the embodiment of one of the goals set by Epsu in June 2024, during the eleventh conference, which was held in Bucharest.

Los European health systems They are working under unsustainable pressure. The scarcity of chronic employees, the aging of the population and the lack of a long investment In sustainable working conditions. Workers pay the price: through exhaustion, tension and lost time with the family. Patients also feel the consequences when employees are in the maximum, “have expressed their regret in recent times since Epsu. The Union of the Union is clear about the long -term consequences of this problem if the necessary measures are not taken at the institutional level:” fatigue, absence, and high cycle of employees and increasing in appointment and retaining. “

The unions require the “political will” of mental health

To reduce these conditions, from Epsu it is considered that the main condition is to have a “political will”. Therefore, in addition to asking for more public funds for Health systemsMore employment “Avoid Excessive labor loadsIncreasing wages and working conditions to retain the attraction and attracting human resources, repeating its claim that Brussels is from the green light to a specific guidance on the psychological and social risks that protect the mental health of health professionals.

“Health systems should not depend on the exhausted workers taking impossible decisions. Every long transformation, every comfort has been deleted, every lost family moment is one of the symptoms Political failureHe criticizes the union, which, in parallel, also raises the approval of a treatment Muscle structure disorders in public services “With sex perspective.”

Although these allegations are on the Brussels table, according to Gil, if the initiatives are not submitted, this must still have to save an important stumbling block: ” European Commission He opposes, at the present time, Guidance on psychological and social risks“In the case of employers, there are those who support this measure and there are those who do not do:“ depends on the sector, ”the person responsible for the FSS-CCOO, who remembers that, if the approval of the committee is reached, the guidance proposal will have to be increasingly directed.”

Breast cancer in the health sector

Regardless of this, at the Epsu expert meeting, an approach breast cancer In the health sector. According to a study I presented French Democratic Labor Union (CFDT), among the different caushing factors of this type of cancer is not only exposure to toxic substances, but also the fact that work continuously in night shifts.

The study mentioned, among other things, a report on the Finnish experts to support this theory: Melatonin It is a hormone that is produced at night and plays a preventive role against some types of cancer. When working at night, the natural production cycle is disturbed. ”