Some 10,500 folks summoned by the Madrid Public Health Defense Committee (MEDSAP), based on knowledge from the Government Delegation in Madrid, took to the streets this Saturday within the capital to protest in opposition to the “privatization” of well being within the area, throughout the framework of the 96th White Tide.
With the slogan ‘No to cuts and privatizations. Yes to well being and public providers’, the demonstrators have began from the Moyano slope and have walked the Paseo del Prado to the central Plaza de Cibeles, in a protest to which political events and unions have joined.
Under banners with slogans corresponding to ‘extra assist for well being’, ‘proper to well being’ or ‘Ayuso, abuse’, these attending the march have proven their disappointment on the well being battle that has plagued the Community of Madrid for months and They have blamed the regional authorities, headed by President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for the “precarious” state of affairs within the sector.
They have additionally repeatedly known as for a “basic strike by public providers” with the goal of reversing the issue within the area of well being.
“The public well being that they (the Community of Madrid) declare just isn’t well being, neither is it public. It just isn’t healthcare as a result of, actually, it’s a enterprise; (…) and it’s not public as a result of it’s parasitized, increasingly on daily basis”, stated Carmen Esbrí, MEDSAP spokesperson, in statements to the media.
He defined that opening Continuing Care Points (PAC) “with out well being professionals” is like “opening an airport with out planes”. “How are we going to have main care facilities with a scarcity, with few groups? How are we going to have the ability to maintain our elders and our youngsters? ”, She has puzzled.
This state of affairs is, in his opinion, a “brutal assault” on which the general public “should start to replicate”, whereas “we’re sustaining politicians who’re business brokers of the businesses.”
The answer, based on her, is to take a position extra in main care, reaching as much as 25% of the full price range merchandise, to be able to rent extra well being professionals, and to reopen the previous Primary Care Emergency Services (SUAP) with the templates at full.
More Madrid and United We Can criticize Ayuso’s “incapacity”
The spokesperson for Más Madrid within the regional Assembly, Mónica García, has criticized the “incapability” of Díaz Ayuso to “attain options”, whereas stating that what occurred yesterday on the headquarters of the Ministry of Health, the place the committee of the strike of Primary Care docs and pediatricians locked themselves as much as demand contacts with Health, it was a “Kafkaesque” state of affairs that denotes the “vanity” of Ayuso.
“We inform Mrs. Ayuso what we now have been saying for months: you do not play with well being, the docs are defending us residents, and what the Government of the Community of Madrid has to do is, principally, sit with the docs in the identical manner and with the identical ease that you just sit with the vulture funds”, he stated in statements to journalists.
For her half, the spokesperson for United We Can within the Madrid Assembly, Alejandra Jacinto, has requested Ayuso to “cease torturing” docs and paediatricians, as was seen, in her opinion, by means of the confinement of the docs and pediatricians on the counseling headquarters.
“We are going to proceed mobilizing, defending our rights, within the face of a completely incapable authorities and that has proven it, as a result of they’ve put apart their manifest vanity earlier than the approval of regional budgets,” he careworn in statements to the media.