“There is no doctor today.” In Galicia – especially in the summer months – it is not surprising that there is such a poster in the medical center. However, in the Lugo Health area, they will not be able to place without a clear resolution of management. This is that the circular, sent on Monday by the outpatient patient and signed by the manager himself, Ramon Ares, after he ordered the output of advertising, who warned users about the reduction of doctors in July. For the public SOS platform, this is a sign of how Xunta wants to apply the same censorship that they led to education as part of the costume of “ideological neutrality”. But this is not an isolated case: in the Pontentra, managerial studies condemning the protesters who carried furniture from the waiting room of the Center for Medical Service Catoira to condemn the lack of funds.
“At present, we report that information for users of medical centers through posters or advertising in advice should follow the rules and protocols of Galician services, less than half a dozen outpatients from the Marinhin region, where protests come from the absence of funds.
The letter explains the procedure that experts follows if they consider the “convenient” distribution of information for users. Firstly, they will send an email to those who are responsible for primary care for the health zone, indicating that it is “intended for movement”, in addition to other aspects, such as a place where a poster or validity of the notice will be placed. Then, when “the competent management bodies decide on the origin, content and form of the above information” and give “relevant instructions in this regard”.
Finally, the circular orders “Remove all these posters or ads that appear depending on the medical center that do not comply with the procedure described above or not were issued by the Galician service de Sauda”. According to CIG Union – and collects Europa Press – the working dignity -chibrao posted an informative note in the units to warn that from July 7, one doctor will be responsible for caring for outpatient patients, and that for a month there will be no additional up to 10.20 hours.
Sources of trade unions report that the management asked the cleaning company to remove this poster, which he refused, and was responsible for the same one who came to remove it. It was immediately after circular disputes were sent.
“Censorship” against “confusion”
“This is pure and rigid censorship.” According to SOS Public Health, what Galian Servizo de Saife (Sergas) intends, “put an end to freedom of opinions in order to avoid professional and social criticism of the policy of reduction and dismantling the public health system.” For the platform, this “return to censorship” is due to the fact that Xunta “has already done in state education”, including in the instructions for the next course, the obligation to collect in the annual program all planned actions, which should be characterized by “ideological neutrality”.
ANPAS, educational alliances and opposition parties agree to consider this change by the Department’s attempt to avoid the celebration of critical events in the centers of critical events with the Altri Macrocellose project in the Palace -de Rei (Lugo), Palestine genocide or the linguistic policy of Xunta. Over the past year, the educational inspection requested information from college directors and institutions that participated in events related to these topics, and even in some case, the pressure received from the regional government managed to suspend them.
The Ministry of Health supports the work of manager Lugo. In response to Eldiario.es, they guarantee that the circular recalls “that medical centers and hospitals are spaces where information is distributed should be strict, proven and proposed by official or authorized channels”, and that “periodic placement” with “incorrect or non -acket statements about how the identification” generates “indefinite arimathals” and “Users”.
According to Sergas, the manager’s writing “in any case does not intend to limit or limit“ the right, freedom of expression of opinions, which “cannot protect the spread of false information on such delicate issues as medical care.”
Productivity that may end the complaint
Lugo is not the only battle front from the department against protests. The neighbors went to Catoira (Pontevedra) for several weeks, when every Wednesday they go to the streets to condemn the shortcomings of their medical center, where they say – there is only a pediatrician one day a week, throughout the summer there are no eternal and the only medication ambulants in Sanxinso to strengthen to strengthen Travel work.
After symbolic mobilization, with dozens of shoes pairs, to demonstrate that “they are not invisible,” they took another step on this environment: they took banks, places, a wheelchair and one of the screens of the waiting room. Once on the street, they represented the theater to express their requirements. The original action allowed them to become a cover of local newspapers, but it may ultimately not leave them for free: according to the ministry, the sanitary zone of the Pontentra “evaluates a possible intervention of a complaint before the civil guards.”
Healthcare indicates that the protesters “missed the warnings of Sergas’s employees” and caused “discomfort” for users and patients when moving furniture. They insist that the signs of professionals, so that they do not do this against the freedom of expression of opinions, “but in defense of patients and provided medical care. Given this situation, the healthcare area will evaluate the relevant legal actions. ”
“I don’t think they dare,” he answered Eldiario. Jose Maria God, a representative of public health, who was present in mobilization. Understand that both this threat and the circular area of Lugo strive to “kill the messenger”, prevent any movement “which affects the history” of the department and demonstrates that “cutting the media means reducing attention”. “For this, they are in a hurry to move. To put doctors, pediatricians or nurses, they are not so diligent, ”the representative concluded.
