Hundreds of doctors and medical staff took to the streets again this Wednesday in the Valencian Community to denounce precarious labor conditions, demand more staff, and call for improvements in their working conditions. In Alicante, the mobilization started from Plaza del Mercado Central and proceeded to the Casa de las Brujas, the regional government's seat in the city.

The protest is part of the third day of medical and faculty strike called by the medical union CESM CV, which demands a regulatory framework that, it argues, will 'dignify' the profession, regulate working hours, and limit excessive patient loads. During the mobilization, the so-called 'white tide' denounced the situation faced by healthcare professionals with slogans such as 'it's not vocation, it's exploitation' or 'no to 24-hour on-call shifts'.

The organizing union maintains that doctors and medical staff are 'exhausted, mistreated, and unprotected.' Among their main demands are a 35-hour workweek from Monday to Friday in Primary and Hospital Care, as well as closed appointment schedules in Primary Care with a maximum of 30 patients scheduled in Family and Community Medicine and 25 in Pediatrics. They also call for the opening of continuous care points (PAC/PAS) 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to redirect urgent or unscheduled consultations to out-of-hospital emergency services.

Regarding on-call shifts, CESM CV requests that any excess over the average of three monthly on-call shifts, or over 425 hours in Primary Care, be voluntary and compensated as extraordinary activity. Furthermore, it demands that hours worked between 10:00 PM and 8:00 AM receive a 25% increase.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, the turnout for this third strike day was 7.40% in the Valencian Community. By province, Alicante recorded the highest official support, with 11.30%, compared to 5.75% in València and 5.01% in Castellón. The organizing union, for its part, estimates strike support above 90%.