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At the

Hospital Clínico de San Carlos,

the entrances with companions are very controlled to avoid crowds and contagions by Covid. However, from the threshold of access to the Emergency Department, you can see the volume of people entering and leaving. It is crowded, although one of the building's security guards comments that "this morning there are far fewer people than yesterday." "Older people have gone to vote first thing in the morning and the hospital is calmer for that reason," he says.

At 11:30 am on 4M one of the hospital guards, Victoria, rests in the sun at Door G of the Emergency Room for a few minutes. The high turnout at the polls on this election Tuesday morning has released today seven of the 10 operating rooms in one of the clinic's floors. "They have taken me out of my operating room because the surgeries had been canceled for today," explains Victoria.

The guardian also comments that she has four hours free to vote in the elections that will decide the political future of the

Community of Madrid

.

"Of course I'm going to vote," he affirms forcefully.

She is convinced when she says that she will go to the polls to give her confidence to the candidate who promises better health management: "I vote for more staff and more investment in public health. The other day we were three assistants in an internal medicine plant with almost 50 patients. It is impossible to give decent care to these people with these means. "

A patient leaves the hospital facilities in a wheelchair.ANDRÉS RODRÍGUEZ

Another San Carlos worker comments that "we need material and end job insecurity. I can't get a permanent position and I've been working for 30 years."

For this reason, this nurse assures that on this day of elections she exercises the right to vote with more enthusiasm than ever.

"The Government has a debt with the health sector. We are the abandoned of the country," he concludes.

MANAGEMENT DURING THE PANDEMIC

Around the building, at the main entrance, several members of the clinic staff gather in small groups to have a snack or rest for a moment. Sandra and Pilar, both nurses at the hospital, comment between puffs of their cigarettes that they are "expectant about what may happen with the elections." The two state that their ideal candidate would be the one who "delivers what he promises." "What we want is for the sector to float, because with this Covid we have seen how bad

Public Health is,

" they summarize.

Both Sandra and Pilar value the management of the Community during the pandemic as "disastrous" and are eager to vote to find solutions in their work sector. For her part, Sandra proposes that "before having done the Zendal they should have fixed other things that were wrong in other hospitals. There are many ucis that are closed." They did the Zendal and it turns out they do not have uvis. All patients who get worse are referred to other hospitals from there, so in the end they don't relieve us of much burden, "explains Pilar.

From inside the building, María Antonia, in charge of the Information Unit of the Hospital San Carlos, thinks the opposite to her colleagues: "I think the construction of the Zendal is very good, it has taken a lot of work off of us." It takes a few minutes in the entrance hall to know that all the staff who pass through the corridors only talk about the importance of voting with health in mind in these elections. "Today here we do not talk about anything other than the issue of the elections", confirms María Antonia.

The opinions of the health workers of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos with respect to some and other measures adopted by the Government differ among them.

However, everyone agrees that they want the health care promises of the candidates to be kept.

For this reason, their participation in this electoral 4M is aimed at those who best look after the interests of the sector.

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