LAB denounces that the Basque Government is “dismantling” primary care in the midst of a pandemic

The LAB union has denounced that the Minister of Health, Gotzone Sagardui, intends to “stand up to the pandemic by cutting primary care once again”.

In a statement, LAB stressed that “Osakidetza’s irresponsibility seems to have no limits” and thus “after many months of the pandemic and after the dismissal of 4,000 workers, the only solutions that counselor Sagardui continues to propose are cuts in primary care “.

“The shameful management that the Department of Health is doing of the pandemic seems to be more aimed at feed the drain of patients who can afford it to the private sector and the abandonment of the popular classes, which to strengthen with human and material resources the attention to the citizens of the Basque Autonomous Community “, he has censored.

For LAB, “for a long time the Department has made great efforts to turn primary care into a sector more typical of charity than a sector that serves citizens’ rights to health with quality and dignity.”

The union has censured that “the irresponsibility of Osakidetza managers it is attacking without dissimulation the rights to health of all the people residing in the Basque Autonomous Community, especially the most vulnerable people “.

“The management of the pandemic and the clear strategy to weaken primary care is criminal, with entire sectors of the population left to their fate by the Department,” he said.

Finally, LAB has called on the population to “carry out protest actions there where they can be articulated to face the offensive that the Department of Health and the Basque Government are developing to weaken and dismantle primary care “.