Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 3:33:45 GMT -5
Called by thirteen union, health and neighborhood organizations that are very representative of Madrid's civil society, 10,000 people demonstrated between Neptuno and Plaza de Colón in defense of universal, quality public healthcare. Following the organization's recommendation, they have done so carrying open umbrellas in order to maintain safe physical distance. Neighbors, patients and users have walked alongside doctors, nurses, assistants, orderlies, technicians and other public health professionals with a common goal: that the Community of Madrid allocates more material and human resources to Primary and Hospital Care “The citizen response to the call has been extraordinary. After this success, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, should stop to reflect and correct her health policy in dialogue with professionals, users, neighbors.
In this way, the organization valued the massive White Tide that this morning filled with color the distance that separates the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo and the Plaza de Colón in Madrid. Some 10,000 people, perfectly distributed in rows and separated thanks to their open umbrellas, have marched along Paseo del Prado and Paseo AOL Email List de Recoletos to the famous square in a common cry for universal, quality public healthcare. Representatives of the thirteen organizing organizations opened the demonstration, each of them carrying a letter of the four words that made up the motto of the mobilization: “Fight for your health.” Behind this new White Tide, which due to its unitary and massive nature is reminiscent of the white tides of 2014, which managed to stop Fernández Lasquetty's privatization plan, are the Association for the Defense of Public Health of Madrid (ADSPM), the Madrid Nursing.
Association (AME), Workers' Commissions Madrid), the General Confederation of Labor , CSIT-Professional Union (CSIT-Professional Union), the Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Madrid (FRAVM), the Assembly Movement of Health Workers (MATS), the Roundtable in Defense of Public Health of Madrid-Marea Blanca -Marea Blanca), the Health Centers Platform, Necessary Health Workers, the State Union of Higher Health Technicians (SIETESS), SummAT (SUMMA 112- Workers' Assembly) and the General Union of Workers (UGT Madrid). A broad and plural movement like the protesters who occupied the center of the capital this morning. Many of them were Madrid public health workers, from our hospitals, specialty centers and health centers, people who for seven months have formed the backbone of the fight against Covid-19, who have received one after another perhaps the applause of the citizens for their tenacity and dedication, but also the disregard, and sometimes the contempt, of the regional government.
In this way, the organization valued the massive White Tide that this morning filled with color the distance that separates the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo and the Plaza de Colón in Madrid. Some 10,000 people, perfectly distributed in rows and separated thanks to their open umbrellas, have marched along Paseo del Prado and Paseo AOL Email List de Recoletos to the famous square in a common cry for universal, quality public healthcare. Representatives of the thirteen organizing organizations opened the demonstration, each of them carrying a letter of the four words that made up the motto of the mobilization: “Fight for your health.” Behind this new White Tide, which due to its unitary and massive nature is reminiscent of the white tides of 2014, which managed to stop Fernández Lasquetty's privatization plan, are the Association for the Defense of Public Health of Madrid (ADSPM), the Madrid Nursing.
Association (AME), Workers' Commissions Madrid), the General Confederation of Labor , CSIT-Professional Union (CSIT-Professional Union), the Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Madrid (FRAVM), the Assembly Movement of Health Workers (MATS), the Roundtable in Defense of Public Health of Madrid-Marea Blanca -Marea Blanca), the Health Centers Platform, Necessary Health Workers, the State Union of Higher Health Technicians (SIETESS), SummAT (SUMMA 112- Workers' Assembly) and the General Union of Workers (UGT Madrid). A broad and plural movement like the protesters who occupied the center of the capital this morning. Many of them were Madrid public health workers, from our hospitals, specialty centers and health centers, people who for seven months have formed the backbone of the fight against Covid-19, who have received one after another perhaps the applause of the citizens for their tenacity and dedication, but also the disregard, and sometimes the contempt, of the regional government.