Intersindical Canaria has denounced in a press release that the Ministry of Health has lashed out against the solidarity campaign with the Gaza Strip and Palestine that health workers were carrying out in the public hospitals of the Canary Islands. In this sense, the union has accused the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, of "ideologically whitewashing his government" by visiting the NGO vessel Open Arms, which regularly carries out humanitarian rescues in the Mediterranean.
The union has accused the Government of the Canarian Coalition and its Minister of Health, Esther Monzón, together with the Popular Party, of "competing in deeds with the far right" and embracing the "fascist behaviors that place them on the side of the genocidal, with Israel." In this sense, it has recalled that the massacre of the Palestinian people has so far resulted in 63,000 deaths, of which 18,500 have been children.
"Seizure" of posters
Since last weekend, it has denounced that the Ministry of Health "has proceeded to remove and seize the posters" that had been placed in the corridors of the hospitals of the Canary Islands in which the solidarity of health workers with Palestine was shown and expressed their rejection of the genocide being committed against the population of Gaza.
The campaign, promoted by Intersindical Canaria, had been notified a week before its start, in a letter in which it was explained to the administration that, in this way, health workers, as professionals and workers who promote health and life, expressed in their workplaces their rejection of the current genocide being committed in Palestine and especially against the population of Gaza, where armed incursions include the bombing of hospitals, the requisition of all types of medicines and the murder of some 1,600 health workers.
"Contrary to responding to the union communication and showing its willingness to collaborate with the campaign, the government and its Ministry deliberately remained silent until it began, proceeding from that moment and, without prior notice, to remove the posters placed on a support at the entrance of the centers and seizing them without being returned to the union organization," the union highlighted in a statement.
To conclude, it has highlighted that "the uncivilized governmental action that is worthy of the most energetic rejection, in addition, strikes the constitutional principles of freedom of expression and freedom of association." "A serious fact that cannot go unanswered and in which this union organization is already working with the objective that the Government of the Canary Islands has both institutional and criminal consequences," it concluded.