“The concept of security transcends military spending.” The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has defended today that a certain health expense is included in the increase in defense expenditure that Europe is demanding and planning the government. “I think there is a consensus,” the minister defended in an interview conducted in the V Day European funds from Eldiario.es, “in which everyone understands that one of the global threats we have, and that we have already lived through the pandemic, is the threat to our health. Part of the defense must include critical medications, production chains and strategic reserves of health material.”
The minister is part of adding, which opposes the increase in funds in defense, and recalled in this regard that he recently sent, together with other European health leaders, a letter to the commission so that it includes critical medications in the concept of defense that you want to reinforce. “We must have strategic autonomy,” he argued, which includes the reserve of vaccines and the production, innovation and development of medicines. “Spending more does not mean spending better – this looks with the US, which spends three times more than Spain but the Spanish system is infinitely better – and Europe has always become stronger when it has been able to invest in a mutualized way in social assets. [Cuando ha sido] A more social Europe, which cares about health matter, ”said Garcia.
The head of Health has also referred to the vote for which PP and Vox knocked down the creation of a state public health agency in Congress, although they had been voting in favor throughout the previous phase. “It was not a defeat of the government, it was a defeat of society. What the parties that voted against, that the previous week had voted in favor, did not kneel the government, they knelt a whole society,” he said.
Even so, Garcia is optimistic. “I hope they rectify, because the parties that voted against are in favor of the State Public Health Agency,” he explained in allusion that what PP and Vox did was punish a decision of the Congress table not related to that initiative. “The agency is owed to a law of 2011, we go 14 years late. When politics is confused with politicians, these things happen,” “but I am convinced that the parties that we had already dialogue are going to rectify. We do not have to return to the beginning of the whole, but we will take it again to see if they ratify it.” They will, has announced, “in the coming weeks.”
We are going to carry the most ambitious reform of the tobacco law, which has to include scientific evidence (and this says that there are spaces where it is demonstrated that it is toxic, and the terraces are one of them
Mónica García
– Minister of Health
The minister has also reviewed some of the legislative initiatives in which she works her department, such as the law of alcohol or tobacco. Although he has not announced great novelty, in both cases he has been hopeful that they serve to generate a certain consensus. “I think that [la salud] It is the place where we are able to put people in the center, because we are all vulnerable and who do a skinny favor is not third parties, but to us, our sons and daughters. We need health prevention policies to be an binder within this polarization and noise, ”he said.
Regarding the tobacco law, he has admitted that there is still no closed text, but that the Ministry will be “as ambitious as possible so that there are the greatest number of smoke -free places.” Does this include the terraces of the bars?, The minister has been asked about one of the most controversial elements of the future law. “We are going to carry the most ambitious reform possible, which has to include scientific evidence. This says there are spaces where it is demonstrated that it is toxic, and the terraces are one of them,” he defended.
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