Madrid, 14 feb (EFE).-doctors of all Spain have today raised its voice against “indiscriminate” and “disproportionate” cuts that are registered in the health services of the different autonomous communities.
Schools and medical unions have responded to the appeal College medical organisation (CMO) to rebel against these cuts, which are putting the health system in a “situation of unprecedented difficulty, which hampers its functioning”.
Medical professionals have signed the adopted manifesto at the General Assembly of WTO on 28 January, in which this organization urged to reject the cuts affecting the quality of care and to denounce its consequences.
Collegiate organizations and trade unions thus joined the strategy of complaint initiated several months ago by the WTO, which yesterday reached social networks through the implementation underway in a campaign under the label Twitter # contrarecortesanitarios.
Professionals of Valencia, Castile – La Mancha, Balearic, Canary Islands, Aragon, Murcia, Cantabria, Galicia and Extremadura have staged their attachment to the document in various acts, while yesterday already did the College of physicians of Madrid.
En Cataluña, the Union of physicians delivered in Parliament 70,000 signatures collected over the past months between users and professionals against health cuts, one day before the camera discussing 2012 budgets.
This organization has warned through his Vice President, Francesc Duch, that cuts in the health budget, located at 11 per cent, will impact on the quality of the assistance, which will be in a critical condition.
Valencian physicians focus their efforts in exposing the “bad practices” of the Department of health and encourage the unions to call a general strike in the sector.
So has pointed it out the President of the College of physicians of Valencia, Rosa Fuster, who has ensured that there is the “majority opinion” that are returned to the State health transfers between community physicians.
In Alicante, doctors have been proposed to open some health centres on Saturday to keep the emergency service does not collapse.
Saving measures that are being put in place in Castilla – La Mancha are producing an increase in the waiting lists in some services in Toledo, although they are not affecting pathologies serious, as he has pointed out the President of the official College of physicians, Luis RodrÃguez Padial.
Gallegos professionals have asked the Xunta that do not copy measures adopted in other communities such as Catalonia, Valencia and Castile – La Mancha, as pointed out by the President of the College of physicians of Pontevedra, Luis Campos, who has shown its concern because, after the adoption of the general budget of the State, there could be more cuts.
The creation of an Observatory of the crisis of health care, both in the Canary Islands and the rest of the country, is one of the demands of the school official of doctors of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which also claims recent and objective data on the impact of the cuts in the quality of care.
Although currently in Aragón there are no cuts, doctors are going to “monitor” the regional government to fulfill its commitment of are not going to produce, since, as pointed out the regional President of the WTO, Ismael Sanchez, health does not have to be “the pagan” of the crisis.
Union doctors el of the region of Murcia has announced “decisive action”, including the strike, if not recovered agreements suspended temporarily by the extraordinary measures Act.
The College of doctors of Cáceres has urged the Spanish Government to make public the health deficit that accumulates the region that, as noted by the President of the Organization, Carlos Arjona, not be might push adjustments or cuts without knowing the chapters that accumulate debts before.
Baleares doctors have signed the manifesto, while nursing SATSE of the community Union has announced that it will require criminal responsibilities to public hospitals if serious incidents occur as a result of the collapse of emergencies in are Llátzer, Son Espases y can’t Misses and cuts staff.
In Cantabria, the President of the official College of physicians of the region, Thomas Cobo, has acknowledged that there have been no cuts comparable to those of other communities and has affected the need that those “uniform criteria in order to make joint decisions” to be “a consistent”.
