Logroño, 17 nov (EFE).-the Mayor of Oyón (Basque country), Rubén Garrido (PP), on hunger strike since yesterday to claim health care for the citizens of La Rioja Alavesa, has today urged the Basque Department of health to get in touch with the Government of La Rioja to solve the problem.
Garrido has spent his first night camped outside the headquarters of the Government of La Rioja in Logroño to require executives Basque and La Rioja to negotiate a solution to the conflict of health care, affecting some 8,000 Alava citizens, as it has been said.
The Mayor of Oyón, which has ensured that he has breakfast isotonic and it has not gone cold, but tonight in Logroño the temperatures have dropped to seven degrees, explained to EFE that also discussed with the Deputy General of Alava, Javier Andrés, so are you interested in the problem.
Garrido has pointed out that it is urgent that responsible for the Department of health of the Basque Government get in touch with their counterparts in the Riojan.
The first authority of Oyón recalled that Patxi López’s Government is the guarantor of the health of all Basque people and therefore asked to redouble “their efforts to reach a solution”.
Garrido has revealed that you for this negotiation “has been and there are proposals on the table” and ensures that you know them and understand “are important for the Government of La Rioja”.
The Alava Mayor, the PP as the President of the Rioja, Pedro Sanz, has charged that the Riojan Executive have led to the inhabitants of La Rioja Alavesa “this situation of helplessness” in regards to health care.
“Why we’re here, because us it has been used as a weapon in a situation that never had to have given”, but it had to be channelled through regional bureaux of health than “stop that exist”, added Garrido.
And believes that the institutions are making “opposite” of what is supposed to do, in his view, is get in touch to get to work and restore the situation.
