💰 Is there really a problem with doctors in Madrid?
The number of doctors in Spain has increased each year since the Franco period but how many are working in which specialities in public or in private and how much time can they spend with patients?
On Sunday, at least several tens of thousands of healthcare workers and their supporters protested in central Madrid. The official government figure was 200,000; the organisers claimed 670,000. Left-wing El País blamed the conservative First Minister of Madrid, Isabel Ayuso, in an editorial this morning: “The unease caused by being battered around by overly politicised healthcare ideologies is her responsibility”. She said the other day in the regional parliament that she thought “34 doctors don’t justify two strikes and a boycott”, framing a much more specific, temporary problem.
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