Health workers; Turkish Medical Association (TTB), Health and Social Workers Union (SES), Istanbul Medical Chamber, General Health and Social Service Branch Public Employees Union (General Health-Work), Istanbul Family Medicine Association (İstAHED) and Primary Health Workers Union and Solidarity Union have all walked out on their jobs throughout the country.

Action was taken in many hospitals in İstanbul. Health workers who walked out on their jobs at Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Hospital gathered inside the hospital and marched.

The participation rate of the action, which is supported by the Turkish Health Workers' Union, is around 70%. Health workers were demonstrating inside the hospital explained their demands.

Assistant Physician Tahsin Çınar: We, as assistant physicians, go through the period when our labour is devalued the most and we do not receive qualified training. We're here to oppose it. Don't let our patients get mad at us, we're here for their right to health. An appointment is made every 5 minutes; There's no way we're going to see a patient every five minutes. Much of the workload in hospitals has been placed on the shoulders of residents. Physicians and patients are on the same side. The more we fight, the better this system will be for all of us. Residents are employed at a hunger level well below the poverty line. Today the spear doesn't fit in the sack, and our fees are melting every day. With the performance app, we are asked to work for 3 cents. We demand a basic wage that we can live on. We are warning the government with a one-day layoff, and if our warnings are ignored, we will continue our actions.

SES Workplace Representative Aydın Erol: Today we stopped service in all units except emergency departments in Cerrahpaşa. Nurse, laborant, physician, health worker... We're here with all our friends. As we have stated before, our demands are; we want to increase basic wages, increase additional fees, increase the additional indicator, give a one-year attrition share for 5 years, and reflect all insecure and external payments into retirement by adding to our fees. We can't get along. Mobbing on the one hand, violence on the other... We ask the government to take steps to make legal arrangements to meet our demands, not promises. If our demands are not accepted, our actions will continue to increase.

SES Member health worker: We want to live humanely, that's why we're on strike. 

SES Member a Social Worker: It was nothing more than a disaster they presented as a transformation in health. We've been saying that all the time. Finally, that balloon exploded during the pandemic. Patients can't make appointments anymore. They wait 2-3 months for the simplest examinations. They can't get the lab scans done in time. As health workers, we have seen especially in the pandemic process that if collective actions against the current power have not taken place, the face of health workers is in homage to water. They made us applaud, but in the meantime, we've seen that it's a lie. They said you're unpaid, and they didn't pay us. We live below the poverty line right now. We want the 3600 additional indicators gradually increased to 7200. We want all of our personal rights to be reflected in retirement. We want to have humane working conditions. We want the public to have access to safe and qualified health care. We're on strike today for all our demands.

SES Member Nurse: I am a nurse with a bachelor's degree. My fee is a little over the poverty line. We're here to say, "We don't get along," to say, "Let health end in violence". Health is a team effort; We are on strike to warn the minister who discriminates against medics. We're going to win together. (EVRENSEL DAILY)