MADRID |
Sun Dec 9, 2012 1:05pm EST
MADRID (Reuters) – Thousands of health workers, on strike given final month, marched on Sunday in Madrid to criticism opposite bill cuts and skeleton from a Spanish capital’s informal supervision to privatize a supervision of open hospitals and medical centers.
It was a third time doctors, nurses and health workers have rallied given a internal authorities put brazen a devise in Oct to place 6 hospitals and dozens of medical practices underneath private management. The devise also calls for patients to be charged a price of 1 euro for prescriptions.
Workers launched an unfixed strike final month opposite a plan, that has not been permitted by a centre-right supervision of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Health workers in a collateral are distinguished Monday-Thursday any week and saying patients usually on Fridays, while also responding to emergencies.
Spain’s 17 unconstrained regions control health and preparation policies and spending. They have all had to exercise high cuts this year as a nation struggles to accommodate tough European Union-agreed necessity targets.
Dressed in white scrubs, a protesters shouted slogans such as “Health is not for sale” and “Health 100 percent public, no to privatizations”.
“Of course, privatization can be reversed. Actually a doubt is not if it can be reversed, since privatization should never have a future,” pronounced Luis Alvarez, an impoverished male from Madrid attending a demonstration.
Belen Padilla, a alloy during Madrid’s sanatorium Gregorio Maranon, pronounced one million adults had already sealed a petition rejecting a plan.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Writing by Julien Toyer; Editing by Peter Graff)
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