Carlos Saura’s widow, actress Eulalia Ramón, has this Friday criticized the public-private health management in Madrid after the official report of the Autonomous Community of Madrid used statements made by the family during the Goya Gala in praise of public health to clarify that the hospital the filmmaker was in was actually “public-private management”: “It must be the crappy food given to the sick, a tray with a disgusting sole, that the sick and attendants have the blankets Private management built a hospital that looks like T4…” the actress said in an interview on the Hoy por hoy program on Cadena SER.
From left Antonio Saura, Eulalia Ramón and Ana Saura at the Goya Gala. Jose Breton (AP)
At the last Goya Gala, held in Seville on Saturday, Eulalia Ramón, who has spent the last few years with the filmmaker, launched a public health plea and thanked the doctors for their work. “She deserves that we take care of her like the professionals who work with her take care of us,” he said in an emotional reference to the two health workers Saura nursed and supervised in his final days in palliative care have, and to the General Hospital of Villalba. The President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, thanked this “tribute to Madrid’s healthcare” in a tweet during the ceremony. The community’s official account also intervened in the conversation: “Carlos Saura’s widow thanked the Villalba hospital for its work. And he has asked to take care of public health. She doesn’t need to know, no patient needs to know, that this hospital is public-private, that it works,” the social network said in a statement.
Carlos Saura’s widow thanked the Villalba hospital for its work. And he has asked to take care of public health. She doesn’t need to know, no patient needs to know, that this hospital is public-private, that it works pic.twitter.com/9hVo4k4ODO
– Community of Madrid (@ComunidadMadrid) February 11, 2023
A week after Saura’s death, his widow warned in the interview that she would no longer be “neither so elegant nor so sober”. “I don’t care,” he said in reference to the news from Ayuso and the Community of Madrid. “I had no idea this hospital was private, what’s my business, we went through Social Security and it was Social Security that took care of us. We’re happy to pay some taxes to make Social Security as reinforced, friendly, and useful as possible. If it’s private management… well look… private management has to be the crappy food given to the sick, it has to be private catering… It seems incredible that in 2023 they’re going to be making these meals, they’re going to give the patient a tray plant a disgusting sole without anyone helping the patient to cut the meat or fish. Own administration should be that the sick and accompanying persons have counted the blankets. Private management built a hospital that looks like T4… I will not answer this lady,” he explained.
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Madrid on Sunday to defend the public health system. More than 250,000 people, according to the government delegation. Madrid is the autonomous community with the lowest per capita spending and the lowest percentage of healthcare spending on primary care, conveners criticize.
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