Thousands of people have demonstrated this Saturday in Euskadi, convened by citizen platforms in defense of public health, to demand “a change of model” in the health system and “urgent solutions to structural problems already”. The mobilization of the Opa Herri Platformak coordinator developed at noon in Bilbao and Vitoria and was repeated in the afternoon in Donostia.
In the Biscayan capital, the march has left from the Sacred Heart headed by a banner with the motto ‘in defense of public health, Enough of promises, solutions now!’, Although the participants have also carried other banners and posters with messages with messages Like ‘when everything is private, we will be deprived of everything. The public is not sold, the public defends’ or ‘public health at the service of the people’. During the tour of the Gran Vía Bilbao, the participants have chanted slogans such as ‘For a public and quality health’ or ‘Cutting health is a criminal act’, according to Europa Press.
Political representatives such as EH Bildu spokesman at the Bizkaia General Meetings, Iker Casanova, the Deputy of Sumar in the Lander Martínez Congress or the Secretary General of Podemos Euskadi, Richar Vaquero, have participated in the march. Unions and various groups have also been added, including a large representation of the Euskal Herria pensioners movement.
The platforms in defense of public heal Delay to be attended in primary care “are in a week”, while “in some specialties they reach 19 months.”
They have also lamented that “derivations to private health continue.” “It is no accident that they end up arriving in it high health and Osakidetza positions through the rotating doors,” said the spokesman for the platforms, José Ignacio Martínez, in statements to the media.
For the calls, the budget for health this year in Euskadi is “very insufficient”, since “only 0.35%” increases “compared to 2024 and is” far away “from the European average. Therefore, they have appealed to “invest more” but also “better, prioritizing primary care to place it in the center of the health system.”
In this line, Martínez has warned that the Basque Pact for Health, which is currently being promoted, “is not properly addressing the causes that have led to this crisis situation, nor is it identifying structural problems.”
Therefore, from the platforms they consider that it is “necessary , “The structural changes we need”, among which have cited “end privatization, reverse all privatized services, invest more.”
“Model change”
In his opinion, “a change of model” is required that “orient health towards health prevention and promotion” and achieves primary care “close, close, with a social and gender perspective.”
They have also claimed that the waiting lists be reduced, “but from the public sphere, without referring to private and without overtime.” Along these lines, they have defended the need to guarantee “a sufficient, stable and not precarious workforce” to stop “the escape of professionals.” “Citizenship does not need promises or makeup that do not solve things, but we need urgent solutions to structural problems already,” said José Ignacio Martínez.
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