Spain’s Catalonia cuts costs: ‘Please don’t get sick’
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ARBOC — Medical operations cancelled, night emergency units axed, towns left with no doctors: Spanish patients already feel the pain of an economic crisis dominating Nov. 20 elections.
Spain’s cash-strapped northeastern region of Catalonia, whose capital is Barcelona, is making dramatic health cuts and there is a rising concern that such measures may spread to other regions.
In the run-up to the vote, widely expected to deliver a landslide victory to the conservative Popular Party over the ruling Socialists, doctors and patients in Catalonia are taking to the streets in protest.
“I am scared, I don’t want to die. I want to live many more years and if they cut costs much more I am not to be able to do it,” worried Antonio Moreno, leaning on his walking stick..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111110com7.html
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naghihirap ang kanluranin. hindi lang pala komunismo/soviet union ang bagsak, ah. lol. pero matatalo daw ang sosyalista malamang sa espana. kasi?
"It is a similar story in all the major medical centers of Catalonia.
"“Please don’t get sick, we are in a crisis,” warns a poster at another large Barcelona hospital, Vall d’Hebron."
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