WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain, CNT Extremadura warns of the precarious situation of Health (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The union affirms that the two main problems are cuts and privatization and will

attend the demonstration in Mérida this Saturday. ---- The CNT Extremadura union
will demonstrate this coming Saturday, April 22 in Mérida, at 12 in the morning,
together with other associations and groups within the Extremadura social
movement for public health, to demand a model of public health and of quality, in
the face of the deterioration and intentional abandonment suffered by our health
system. ---- The demonstration will leave the central services of the Extremadura
Health Service and will tour the streets of Mérida. ---- This deterioration is
mainly due to the attempt to privatize public health within the neoliberal
policies applied by the different political parties in power and regardless of
their ideology. Betting on health as a lucrative business, where private
companies take public funds, and at the same time the administration cuts funds
in health.

As a consequence of all this, health spending in Extremadura does not reach the
European average, the inefficient management of health spending with managers
dependent on political parties, cuts in primary care, lack of beds in hospitals
without reaching the European average, lack of resources in mental health, lack
of control of pharmaceutical spending benefiting the pharmaceutical industry,
lack of health personnel, waiting lists of up to 156 days on average. All this is
being solved through privatizations and outsourcing many services.

    From the CNT union we ask for the repeal of law 15/97 that opened the door to
private healthcare and for the repeal of articles 67 and 90 of the general
healthcare law. Health is not a business and needs public funds.

For all these reasons, we encourage all citizens to participate in this
demonstration and to participate and organize so as not to lose our public health.

https://www.cnt.es/noticias/22-de-abril-cnt-advierte-de-la-precaria-situacion-de-la-sanidad-extremena/
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