MADRID: Tens of thousands of health workers protested in Madrid on Sunday (Jan 15) over what they say is the destruction of the public health system by the conservative regional government. Dressed in white coats and banging drums, many chanted: 'Cutting public health is criminal.' The Madrid reg
MADRID: Tens of thousands of health workers protested in Madrid on Sunday over what they say is the destruction of the public health system by the conservative regional government.The Madrid regional government, led by the Popular Party’s Isabel Ayuso, has come under fire in recent years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, for poor staffing in hospitals and primary healthcare centres.
Dressed as the Grim Reaper and bearing a mock scythe, one protester held a sign reading,"I am Ayuso's plan for emergency ward."