30,000 protesters take to the streets in Madrid once more to the cry of ‘Ayuso resignation’
The White Tide has introduced collectively some 30,000 protesters, in accordance with police sources, who’ve as soon as once more taken to the streets this Sunday after the Christmas break shouting ‘Ayuso resignation’.
Slogans equivalent to ‘If there isn’t a resolution, Ayuso resigns’ and ‘Public Health’, the protesters have walked the Paseo del Prado from the assembly level, the Ministry of Health, to the Reina Sofía Museum sq. since 12 o’clock.
With white coats, whistles and even batukada, the protesters haven’t solely attacked and booed the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but additionally the Ministers of Health and Finance, Enrique Ruiz Escudero and Javier Fernández-Lasquetty respectively.
Esther Barra, a Primary Care physician of the Community of Madrid, has highlighted that they should “look after sufferers by giving them ample high quality”, one thing that she has indicated isn’t potential as a result of they don’t have “time per affected person”.
The identical skilled has indicated that that is the primary demand, “no less than ten minutes per affected person, and that the finances be elevated to rent extra professionals, primarily docs.”
It has additionally indicated that it’s obligatory for docs who end their Primary Care residency to remain within the Community to ensure that vacancies to be crammed.
specialists wanted
This has additionally been defended by Consuelo Escudero, from the Chamberí well being group, who added that not solely docs and pediatricians are wanted in Primary Care but additionally physiotherapists, nursing and administrative workers or psychologists.
On the opposite hand, the member of the coordinating group of the Platform of Health Centers of Madrid has declared to Europa Press that from the regional authorities “they go away no different various than to protest” and that, due to this fact, “there isn’t a different selection however to go on strike ” assuring that they solely “search the advantage of non-public insurers”.
He has requested common public well being that may facilitate entry to well being for everybody, no matter their earnings and no matter origin. Reference to this has been made by the chants that known as for ‘Nothing, nothing, nothing, for the non-public’ or ‘The public one forwards and the non-public one backwards’.
Recovering what that they had earlier than is what Jesús Barrios, a resident of Las Rozas, has claimed, who has publicly denounced the emergency service open on weekends from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a single nurse when earlier than the pandemic there have been additionally with the presence of a physician and an orderly.
He added that the present state of affairs forces them, in case of getting an pressing drawback, to go to Collado Villalba, positioned 18 kilometers away.
More infrastructures
He isn’t the one one who has protested for well being for particular instances that have an effect on him straight. Rosa María Pérez Mateo, belonging to the Villa de Vallecas Public Health Platform, has requested the development of a second well being middle, emphasizing that they at the moment solely have one middle for 52,000 folks, and a specialty middle, which doesn’t but exist all through the district.
Likewise, he has requested that the third ground of the “completely collapsed” Infanta Leonor Hospital be enabled and that well being facilities be staffed so as to not have to attend a month to be seen by the physician.
political reactions
The spokesperson for Más Madrid within the Assembly, Mónica García, current on the rally, has proposed to President Ayuso “to depart the pleasure and vanity and contempt that she has for public well being” with the intention of having the ability to sit down and speak with the professionals on strike and start to place options to the “botch that she herself has created”.
For her half, the United Podemos candidate within the Madrid Assembly, Alejandra Jacinto, has expressed that healthcare “must be a Ferrari when Ayuso isn’t even providing a Twingo.” She has additionally accused him of “systematically boycotting the Madrid well being system and, particularly, Primary Care” to be able to “deploy a marketing strategy” that forces folks to pay.
Jacinto identified that “virtually 40% of Madrid residents have obligatory non-public insurance coverage” and added that the regional chief ought to fear “extra concerning the lives of the individuals who dwell in the neighborhood at present and cease worrying a lot for the lives of people that haven’t even been born”, referring to the announcement of the launch of a hotline for pregnant ladies.