Intersindical Canaria has denounced in a press release that the Ministry of Health and its Director of Service have denied them the use of the auditorium of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital for an event in support of Palestine. "They outdo themselves every day in a management that, apart from being very deficient, abounds in authoritarianism and tyranny, exacerbating attitudes that are especially incompatible in a public service like Health," they state from the union.
Initially, following the instructions of councilor Monzón and her collaborator Goya, Intersindical Canaria assures that "they proceeded to seize the material and prevent a campaign in all hospitals against the genocide in Gaza under the name of Canary workers with Palestine".
In the last month, the same Ministry has prohibited on two occasions the representatives of the workers from using two hospital assembly halls (in Lanzarote and Gran Canaria) in which Intersindical Canaria intended to carry out an analysis of the healthcare situation, with the circumstance that in both cases, the use of the facilities had been previously authorized by the respective managers.
"These facts should not be separated from another very serious event, such as the attempt by the same Ministry presided over by Esther Monzón to annul the legitimate representation of the Blood Bank Works Committees, a despicable action that in recent days has deserved a correction from the courts of justice," they point out from the union.
Intersindical Canaria qualifies the management of public healthcare by the Ministry as "profoundly erratic in terms of care and autocratic and despotic in labor and union matters". "This Government not only violates the right to health every day by maintaining deficiencies and hindering citizen access to public healthcare, but also, by taking over the facilities of a public service, it mocks the constitutional principle of the right to union representation and freedom of expression, giving credence to its undeniable and dangerous far-right biases, consistent with the ideology of the members of the current Canary Islands government," they conclude.
