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"Be careful that you can go from hero to villain in a second and there are people in society who are having a very bad time."

This is how the second vice president of the Junta de Extremadura and Minister of Health and Social Services,

José María Vergeles

,

addressed

the doctors who were protesting this Tuesday at the doors of the Navalmoral de la Mata hospital (Cáceres) on the occasion of the strike that It has been held throughout Spain to demand job improvements in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic.

The doctors had stopped the institutional delegation that had come to the Campo Arañuelo hospital to present the future new Critical Care Unit to reproach it that the promises made in recent months to the doctors in Extremadura had not been kept.

Among them, they demanded "quality" health care and were against the Royal Decree that authorizes doctors without the approved title to practice in the public health system, in addition to disfiguring a counselor who has not been uploaded -as Nor to the rest of public employees in Extremadura - 2% in their payrolls this year, as has happened in most of the country's autonomous communities.

For this reason, and always in an affable and polite tone, a dozen doctors - who carried various protest posters - also expressed to the head of the Extremadura Health Service,

Celiciano Franco

, who accompanied the counselor, that they felt "cheated."

Criticisms of the motives

Thus, and playing with the terms of the surnames of the high positions of Extremadura Health, and the president of the Board himself, they were told: "We want to see gels, we want to see masks and, to be frank, no matter how hard we give the rod You have defaulted and you have not been gentlemen. "

In addition, they criticized that the Junta de Extremadura had publicly blamed the doctors who carried out this strike for economic reasons: "We fight here for dignity, not for money, but you have said it was because there was no money, but you have presumed a surplus ".

In addition, the doctors argued that the Junta had hidden behind the fact that the strike was called at the national level and that it had nothing to do with the health problems in Extremadura.

The doctors did not deny and gave as an example the unfulfilled wage demands in this region: "The 2% (due to the increase in payroll) is budgeted and paid at the national level, but, nevertheless, Extremadura is one of the only ones that does not pay ".

It was then, at the end of the talk, when the spokesman for the doctors told the counselor that with the strike they were trying to defend the population when José María Vergeles addressed him directly and blurted out: "Be careful, he can be a hero a villain in a second and there are people in society who are having a very bad time. "

Other controversies

It is not the first time that the Extremadura Health Minister (who is a protection doctor) has made controversial statements since the pandemic began.

Thus, last June he pointed out that "medical professionals requested protective material over and above the protocols during the first days of the pandemic."

Then, the Simex (Union of Doctors of Extremadura) and other unions and groups asked for his resignation.

Earlier, in the first weeks of the pandemic, he went on to say that more than half of the toilets had been infected outside of their workplace.

His cessation was also requested then.

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