A 'white' protest for Health with several famous faces and called by "neighbors and neighbors of Madrid"

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The demonstration under the slogan 'Madrid rises for public health', is called by an indeterminate "neighbors and neighbors of the neighborhoods and towns of Madrid", without the appearance of any specific group or union.

On the contrary, dozens of personalities linked to the world of the arts have put their faces forward, such as the members of the

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or the singers

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, artists who have shown their support for said concentration, which will begin at 12:00 noon and will have several starting points: Nuevos Ministerios (North zone), Hospital de la Princesa (East), Atocha (South) and Ópera (West), to end up all converging in Plaza de Cibeles , where a large crowd of citizens is expected to take over this enclave and its surroundings.

The march will serve to support health professionals in a context marked by the indefinite strike called from November 21 for 4,240 family doctors and 720 Primary Care paediatricians, and the one that since last day 7 carry out more than 200 doctors from the former SUAP and Rural Care Services (SAR) affected by the reorganization of the out-of-hospital emergency care model.

“We all deserve universal and quality public healthcare,” the actor and director Juan Diego Botto claimed yesterday on his Twitter account.

Something similar was expressed by the members of

: "We encourage those applause that we had in the pandemic to take to the streets to support them."

The Association for the Defense of Public Health in Madrid (Adspm) also requested the participation of health professionals and citizens.

According to this group, “the situation of public health in the Community of Madrid is critical.

The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso has long been pushing the region's public health system to the limit, which is the one with the smallest budget per inhabitant »in the entire national territory.

In the opinion of Adspm, the current crisis in Primary Care "is but the culmination of this situation caused by incompetent management and aimed at destroying and deteriorating the public health system to favor the interests of the private sector."

On the day of last Friday, the 78 out-of-hospital emergency centers in the region, reopened on October 27, again registered incidents with at least six points closed and another 35 (46.7%) where there was not a complete team of medicine, nursing and caretaker.

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