The public offices of the government of Guerrero have been closed for more than four days due to strikes by bureaucrats demanding a bonus and the payment of back wages.
Doctors, nurses and administrators in the health area also joined the work stoppage. In the 14 general hospitals and 400 health centers distributed in Guerrero, only medical emergencies are attended.
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According to Amapola Periodismo, the central offices of the Ministry of Health, the warehouses where the medicines are located and the state laboratory are closed.
The medical staff demands that the government pay the State of Guerrero Fund and Capitalizable Savings (FEGAC) and that the local Congress approve as public debt the 13 billion pesos that since 2005 the state government owes to the ISSSTE.
The work stoppage was joined by workers from the Judiciary, the Integral Rehabilitation Center of Guerrero (CRIG), the State DIF, the State Institute for Youth and Adult Education of the State of Guerrero (IEJAG) and the Commission of Drinking Water, Sewerage and Sanitation of the State of Guerrero (Capaseg).
Also the employees of Radio and Television of Guerrero (RTG), the Institute of Housing and Urban Land (Invisur) and the State Human Rights Commission, who served three days in work stoppage and keep the offices of their workplaces closed.
In the case of RTG, since last weekend the workers have the signal off the air.
The bureaucrats of the state government agencies and decentralized public agencies remain 24 hours outside the offices waiting to be paid, only then, they warned, would they return to their work.
The workers demand from the administration of outgoing Governor Héctor Astudillo, the payment of back wages, bonuses, per diems and other economic benefits.
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Police protest in front of Evelyn Salgado
On Friday, a group of state police who demand that the current government pay them their per diems and resolve other demands protested in front of the governor-elect, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, who was on the esplanade of Congress where she was rehearsing for the ceremony of her inauguration, which will be held in this enclosure on October 15.
Salgado Pineda noticed that outside the steel bars was the group of agents carrying banners and immediately approached them.
“I hear you, tell me,” he told one of the policemen.
“Look governor, the only thing we are asking for is the payment of the per diems that we have not been paid, we are more than 5,000 policemen; we take that money for food and we don’t have it,” the agent replied.
The police began to tell the governor-elect the deficiencies that exist in the corporation.
“They require us to make tours but we cannot do it because the units (patrols) are stopped because there is no gasoline,” said an agent.
The policeman explained that when they are given their per diems (3,700 pesos every 15 days), they often use them to buy fuel for patrols.
“Right now we don’t have money and we can’t load up on gas because they don’t give us the per diems,” he complained.
Salgado Pineda promised the police that at the head of the Security Secretariat will be an honest person who instead of taking away them “will give them more.”
With information from Amapola Periodismo
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