Yolanda Díaz fully engaged in the debate on the state of public health in Spain this Saturday. Just six days after a massive demonstration swept through the streets of Madrid in defense of this service – which has kept primary care doctors on strike since November – the government’s second vice-president has called for the one defined as to be preserved “the jewel in the crown of the welfare state” in the face of a “deliberate” proposal by the PP and its leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to “dismantle public health and turn citizens’ lives into business”. “The PP model means save who can,” he explained during an event with experts, users and representatives of the industry at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
In front of a hundred people and after focusing on the precariousness in which 32% of professionals work, often with contracts that are renewed every two months, she stressed, the vice-president spoke in favor of urgently establishing an “immediate renewal plan of all templates”. to submit “Sanitary. In addition, it has called for mental health to be moved “comprehensively” into the public health network and for primary care to be “at the heart of the system”, in addition to including oral and eye health in the universal system.
The debate comes after around 250,000 people took to the streets of Madrid last Sunday to defend the public system, according to the government delegation. Currently, more than 4,200 family doctors and around 700 primary care paediatricians have been on strike since November 21, and negotiations with Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s government remain blocked. Among other things, the doctors take 10 minutes to see a patient, without this depending on the doctors themselves voluntarily to work extra shifts.
“The jewel in the crown of the welfare state in Spain is public health. I vehemently defend it. At the moment we have a real danger, it’s called Feijóo, it’s called PP,” Díaz warned, before confirming that Galicia, with the popular leader at the helm, is a “laboratory of ideas for Madrid’s health”, before stressing that the model of the The most popular ones have to do with the “dismantling of public health services,” a proposal that “is also linked to healthcare companies.” “The PP model is called ‘each to his own.’ Whoever has resources, let them heal, and whoever doesn’t, what can we do, they would have tried harder. It’s not about effort, it’s about rights, general health,” the vice president shouted.
Díaz has proposed a “grand democratic public health treaty” by Sumar, repeating that it is already being written “on the streets” of the country. “This is the urgent task in defense of the crown jewel and in defense of a dignified life (…) Let us know that we have Alberto Núñez Feijóo before us with a conscious proposal to dismantle public health and change our lives in a business. In the face of this model, let us defend a rights-based model,” encouraged the Vice President.
Hand in hand with Rafael Cofiño, former director general of public health in Asturias and coordinator of the working group of his project on health and mental health, Díaz has spent months outlining the Sumar program, the platform he promotes with a view to the general , whose conclusions have not yet been published.
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Podemos insists that Sumar will only reach an agreement in the summer
In recent days, both Podemos and Yolanda Díaz have exchanged messages on the progress of negotiations to form a unified candidacy for parliamentary elections later this year. After Irene Montero on Thursday urged the vice president to define the process “as soon as possible” and pointed out that “they were too late,” the Sumar leader responded on Friday that her team was already “all political.” parties, including We Can,” a matter it had not publicly ruled on until then, despite the strong claims of formation by Ione Belarra. Díaz urged the parties to “let his platform work” and asked for discretion to reach an agreement. “If we want to add, we’ll do it well, with discretion and with love,” he decided.
“His team has informed us that they do not intend to finalize an electoral agreement for the general election before the summer,” the party’s organizing secretary, Lilith Verstrynge, again asked strongly about those talks. Less than three months after the start of the campaign for regional and local governments – a factor that complicates the conclusion of negotiations with the political forces present in this process – the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda has again asked Díaz from Seville where the formation a holding an interparliamentary meeting to support the candidatures of Podemos and Unidas Podemos in these elections.
“We respect Yolanda’s times, we respect the time it takes her to articulate her party and Podemos has always been and always will be where it has been, which is to work for unity,” Belarra said in statements to the Media in Mostoles.
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