The tides have called for this weekend, in the eight Andalusian provinces, demonstrations against the endless deterioration of public health. In Cádiz it will be this Saturday and in the rest it will be Sunday. The slogan chosen for the protest is Move for your health.
These protests come at a time hotjust when a judge has just summoned the current manager of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) to testify, Garcia Valley and the former managers, Diego Vargas and Miguel Angel Guzman and, after a complaint from the PSOE, which considers that they could have committed crimes of prevarication due to the extensions of contract contracts carried out during the pandemic.
The high waiting lists, which the Andalusian Government of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (PP) has not managed to reduce, and the delays in care in health centers represent “irresponsibility” and “poor management” for the tides.
“We cannot fail to show our highest indignation and our rejection of the situation,” says La Marea in a statement. The platform demands, among other issues, “measures to strengthen public healthcare, the cessation of budgetary transfers of public money to private healthcare, an increase in staff in health centers and hospital services and an active role for citizens in everything.” this process that is occurring as a consequence of the serious irresponsibility in government management Moreno Bonilla“.
A designed strategy
The tides consider that these are not “specific errors in management, but rather a well-designed strategy that involves, first of all, deteriorating public health – mainly primary health care – and chronicle waiting listsso that all this allows the expansion of private healthcare.”
It is a strategy “conducive to generating a health reconversion that gives rise to a dual health services model where a impoverished, saturated and deteriorated public health will serve older people, people with complicated chronic diseases or with a history of oncology, pluripathology or cardiovascular disease,” the tides state in a statement.
“Patients,” they add, “all of whom, it is known, do not want private healthcare because it is too expensive for their benefit calculations. And one private healthcare, companies, many of them multinationalswhich is increasing its businesses, its policies and its infrastructure, increasing its expansion at the expense of public money, under the self-righteous motto of public-private collaboration, which is nothing other than a clear parasitization of the public budget for private benefit.
In the next budget the increase in the transfer of funds continues. The Moreno Bonilla Government has planned a 21.5% increase in the budget for health concerts. This figure is well above the global increase in accounts, which stands at 4.4% and also the entire health budget, which grows by 6.9% compared to 2024. This is not new in Andalusia. It already happened with the PSOE, but the PP, little by little, is increasing the referrals.
The deterioration of healthcare is an issue that affects citizens, as revealed by surveys by the Andalusian Government itself. It is the second problem that worries Andalusians the most, only behind endemic unemployment. The state of the health system was a very relevant factor for the PP coming to power in the Autonomous Community, after 37 years of PSOE governments.
After almost six years of Moreno Bonilla’s cabinets, the concern has surpassed what existed about this issue when the PP came to the Executive, after the December 2018 elections. The crisis of the system has led the president to undertake several changes in the organizational chart and not only in intermediate tables. One fact is enough: in six years of presidency, Moreno Bonilla, very little friend of Government crises and defender of stability, has had three different people at the head of the Ministry of Health: Jesús Aguirre, Catalina García and now Rocío Hernández.
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