Charity says 2,300 foreigners a day are refused medical treatment or forced to pay
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 @ 12:29 AM
NTERNATIONAL charity Médicos del Mundo ('world doctors') say they have 1,192 cases of people on their books who have 'suffered a breach of their human right to health' in Spain as a result of the health service reform.
In its report, The impact of the medical care reform on the right to health, which Chairman Álvaro González is due to hand to the State ombudswoman Soledad Becerril, covers 254 cases reported in Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia, the Canary Islands and Navarra, plus 250 from the Madrid region alone and 290 others from the Balearic Islands – a total of 12 of Spain's 17 federal regions – in the last 12 months since the PP government restricted healthcare entitlement to legal residents in work, on benefits or pensions, or registered as self-employed only.
The national branch of Médicos del Mundo say their own figures are increased by those gathered by Médicos del Mundo Valencia and another 49 associations and charities, which show 398 cases between December 2012 and June 2013 – a six-month period.
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