Granada, (EFE).- Thousands of Andalusians have joined this Saturday the eight demonstrations called in Andalusia for the “white tides”, a massive reproach to the management made by the Board of public health that has had the support of unions such as CCOO and UGT, and left-wing parties.
The Table in Defense of Public Health (MDSP) called this protest, with almost simultaneous marches in the eight provincial capitals, to defend a public health system suffering from “continuous attacks”, which in their opinion has generated longer waiting lists. and leaves Primary Care on the brink of collapse.
As sources from the Government Delegation in Andalusia, which has collected the data from the National Police, have explained to EFE, Granada has had one of the largest demonstrations in Andalusia, a march to which some 20,000 people have joined to demand less cuts, more investments or the end of the concertation of services with private centers.
With the slogan “Public healthcare is in your hands”, a hundred Andalusian groups have toured the center of Granada, from El Triunfo, with criticism focused on the concerts with private healthcare.
A “historic” mobilization
The health demonstration in Cádiz has exceeded 3,800 participants, 5,000 according to the organization, and has taken place in parallel with two other protests that have converged until they reached the Plaza de San Juan de Dios.
The spokesman for the White Tide in Cádiz, Antonio Vergara, has described the protest as “historic” for assuming the “birth of a great citizen tide” and has regretted that the Board defends itself by ensuring that it had never invested as much in health as now .
In Seville, the organizers raise the police figure of 6,000 attendees to 50,000, with a tour under intense heat that ended in front of the Palacio de San Telmo.
Among those attending this march were the spokesperson for Marea Blanca in Seville, Sebastián Martín Recio; the general secretary of the PSOE of Seville, Javier Fernández; and union representatives.
In Malaga, the organization has registered 30,000 participants and the National Police some 7,000 in a march that has passed without incident and in a highly demanding manner with the support of unions, and political and social forces that have traveled from the center to Customs.
“Clients for private healthcare”
The coordinator of IU Andalucía, Toni Valero, told journalists before the start of the march, that the president of the Board, Juanma Moreno “does not want patients for public health, but clients for private health.”
“Moreno is detrimental to health, he is awarding millions to private clinics, despite the fact that they are public funds that should be in the public health system, which is why he has targeted primary care,” Valero assured.
Some 5,000 people have demonstrated in the capital of Huelva under the slogan “Huelva in defense of public health”, a march that has ended with the reading of a manifesto to demand that the Junta put all the necessary resources to alleviate the sanitary deficit .
In Córdoba, some 3,600 people, according to the Police, and 10,000, according to the organizers, have mobilized against the “privatization of services” in a march that has taken place without incident and that has concluded on the Bulevar Gran Capitán.
“Siren songs” at election time
The main unions in the province of Cordoba and associations such as Facua have been joined by left-wing parties to give a “forceful response” to what they consider a gradual “privatization of Primary Care”.
In Jaén, the demonstration in defense of public health has brought together some 3,000 people to the cry of “whoever governs, health defends itself”, a protest that has joined the general secretary of the PSOE-A, Juan Espadas.
While the march progressed, the Minister of Health and Consumption, Catalina García, visited the High Resolution Hospital in Cazorla (Jaén), which will fully open its doors next Tuesday almost three years after its incomplete inauguration.
In Almería, the march has had 1,400 participants and has passed without incident.
From this province, the Minister of Agriculture, Carmen Crespo, has asked Andalusians not to be carried away by the “mermaid songs” of the pre-election period after acknowledging that “inherited” public health still has “many needs” that are solved with the budget increase of the Board. EFE
