Things are getting rather tough here. The
politicians' evil intentions are coming into action in several regions. Unless
we do something, the privatisation of public social care or education will
become a reality. The end of this crisis is not to come hand in hand with a
loss in quality of the public services, not to mention with privatisation,
which is far more expensive, unfair and selfish. There are some hidden
interests made to benefit only a minority as well as demolish a world-famous
network at the same time. How about privatising the Parliament or the Senate?
Why not politicians put their posts in hands of the private sector? So bad they
do that we couldn’t be worse. When are they going to pay with their own
properties for the money-waste, overambitious works like never-going-to-be-used
airports?
Letter by a Neurologist
of the Hospital de La Princesa, Madrid.
My dear journalists, let me address you to accuse
publically the Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid (city council
division for public health of Madrid) of dismantling the Hospital de La Princesa
de Madrid.
Firstly, we want to denounce:
1. Mr.
Ignacio González has lied during his first public speech. He declared the
existence of a planned schedule to “transform” our hospital into an elderly
care home. The professionals who work there have been informed by the press.
There is not such a plan: we ourselves are planning our patients’ treatment for
the following months. Patients from all Spain come to get operated at the
epilepsy unit, nationally famous.
2. On November 1st at 11.30 we visited the
Consejería de Sanidad to speak with the health councillor after his speech to
the press where he was to announce this “schedule”. Despite our request to
health councillor Fernández-Lasquetty in order to know what to tell our
patients, he refused to see us. He did not only ignore our request but also
sent Mr. Antonio Brugueño, Hospital de Madrid manager, to talk to us so that
the councillor could flee the premises.
3. Mr. Burgueño made clear he didn’t have a clue on
how our hospital is going to disappear, what is going to happen with the 40
prestigious medicine specialties or with the university students coming from
all over the country to learn at our hospital, some of them the best qualified
in their faculties who had personally chosen this hospital as their internship
placements. The solution we have been offered is plainly insulting: we are
expected to hold daily meetings to discuss how our hospital is going to be
dismantled. Our hospital is 100 years old and became world-wide famous for its
hardworking thorough teamwork.
We declare it is not a political problem concerning
either PP or PSOE or any other party. What it is really going on here is that a
private company wishes to take over Madrid’s health service and make money out
of it at the shadow of the financial crisis. This company has presented this
idea to some politicians who must have considered it perfectly logical. This
overpasses partisan policies: our health system is at stake. How is it possible
that as soon as four years ago 6 new public hospitals were needed and now we,
the professionals that cure our diseases, learnt by the press that there is at
least one public hospital too many? Is the hospital going to become a place for
the elderly only? Let me say something else about this: this hospital cannot be
sold and bought for it is built on land the State donated for a hospital, so
they disguise its dismantling by no calling it a geriatric hospital but a
medical centre specialised in offering old people a “dignified death”, which we
wouldn’t call so “dignified”.
Our hospital already offers specialised care not only
for the elderly, but also to more 500,000 people, and I mean 40 real medical
specialties.
I want to thank you all for listening to us. I was
born inside a democratic system and I have eventually lost faith in
politicians. Please feel please to quote my words. I am willing to be
interviewed and make you contact other members of the hospital.
Yours faithfully, Álvaro.
Dr AX.
Neurology Unit of Hospital de La Princesa, Madrid.
No way. It has not
arrived a crisis able to defeat us. Because we wait to confront the problems
standing up, looking straight to them. Because we may bend but never snap.
Because heavens will no collapse over our heads. Because the dreamer may be
killed but not the dream. Because we fall and stand up again. Because the sun
will come out tomorrow. Because we’ll always have Paris. Because we’ll sing
under the rain. Because we’re salmons swimming upstream. Because there’s no
shake mate so long as we have queens on the board. Because there are no too
many stupid bosses but too little cups. Because, if the narrows blot out the
sun, then we will fight in the shade. Because rich or poor I do what I want.
Because nothing is sweeter than the first drink after one’s exams. Because my
life is like a game of Monopoly: even penniless and fucked-up, I will tread on
your street once and again. Because we will escape this “hard death”. Because
Sinatra will keep on singing, because we will find the perfect cake and the
perfect gin and tonic. Because we like enjoying ourselves. Because they can’t
stop the spring. Because we may be jobless but never motionless. Because we
won’t drawn in a glass of water. Because there are many suitcases to make and
many dresses to remove. Because the sunny days are about to arrive. Because
nobody will be able to make us surrender. Because, as the musicians of the
Titanic, will won’t stop playing and dancing until the waters cover us
all. Let’s seize 2013, my brave fellas,
because we are born to die. (Thank you J. A.)
THEY SUGGEST VILE GIMMICKS
THEY USE FOOLISH, SIBYLINE LAWS
THEY GIVE CRYPTIC SCOLDING, VICIOUS MEDITATED
INTENTIOS,
IGNOMINIOUS
DARK SATRAPS.
THEY CAN USE COARSE LAWS, INFLICT PUNISHMENTS, ORGANISE
SOIRÉES,
SIGN AN ENTELECHY, STEAL TREASURES, PLUNDER SERVICES.
LET’S TIDY ORDERLY
LET’S CLEAN UP DIVES
LET’S GATHER ENERGIES, WIN OUR SUCCESSFUL NOISE SHALL
WIN OVER, SHALL TRIGGER MAJOR CHANGES SHALL OFFER NEW WAYS
HARMONIOUS
LIGHT
MUST EXIST
FOR IMMACULATE CLEANING.
SO MANY ILLUSTRIOUS CORRUPTED ONES SHALL END.
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