Several tens of thousands of Galicians took part this afternoon in the demonstration called by SOS Public Health in the Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela.

The demonstration is held in the middle of the electoral campaign in which left-wing groups need to mobilize their electorate to ensure that the PP does not achieve, on February 18, a new absolute majority, the fifth since the PP won the vote in 2009. pulse of the bipartite made up of the Galician socialists and the Nationalist Bloc.

The demonstration, called last October by a platform that, on paper, is unrelated to the opposition parties, has had the support of all the leaders of the Galician left, Ana Pontón, the head of the list of the Galician Nationalist Bloc; José Ramón Gómez Bestio, from the Socialist Party of Galicia (PSdG); Marta Lois, from Sumar and Isabel Faraldo, from Podemos. Each of the leaders have stood behind their banners.

Health is, along with unemployment, the main problem that Galician voters highlight when asked. With a very aged and dispersed population, primary care has become a challenge for the Galician administration.

With this demonstration, the SOS Sanidade Pública platform seeks to defend the health system and demand improvements in the current situation, with “saturation” of primary care, the lack of specialists and long waiting lists.

The spokesperson for the SOS Sanidade Pública platform, Manuel Martín, has said that this is the demonstration that Galician citizens “are not going to give up” in the fight to guarantee health access to everyone. Martín has rejected that this is a political call, but has insisted that “if health policies do not change”, on February 18 “we will have to think about changing the authors of health policies”, according to statements collected by the agency. EFE.

Paula Prado, organizational secretary of the Galician PP who was visiting Mos (Pontevedra) this morning, has assured that the opposition “only seeks to obtain political benefits by calling a demonstration financed by the parties that only seek to discredit Galician healthcare. A healthcare that the The only problem it has is the lack of medical professionals” and assured that the Xunta has requested them “from the Sánchez Government.”

The BNG candidate, Marta Pontón, in statements to the media at the rally, assured that in the health management of the PP in Galicia “not only was there bad management, but there was also a lot of ideology.” “Because what is happening responds to something that the PP wants, and that is to deteriorate the public to benefit the private.” “This is done at the expense of the health of Galicians.”

For his part, the leader of the Galician socialists, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, has stated that “in Galicia we remember when we called the family doctor and they treated us the next day. Today with Rueda, and with Feijóo’s inheritance, the appointment can be take up to 15 days” according to statements collected by Europa Press.