The Secretary of Health of the PSOE-A, María Ángeles Prieto, denounced this Saturday the “cruel cut” in Early Care by the Andalusian government chaired by Juanma Moreno (PP-A), a “dismantling of the service which hides”, as he declared, “a strategy of privatization”.
“Behind the elimination of these positions lie the interests of the private sector”, according to what the socialist representative declared at the gates of the Early Care Center (CAI) San Rafael de Granada accompanied by families of minors suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders, where she highlighted the “disastrous decision” of the Andalusian government to “remove almost 500 places in the public center”, as the PSOE-A explains in a note.
“Parents take out mortgages or stop eating so their children can go to therapy, and Moreno Bonilla knows it. “It’s a public service and a right, not a business” the socialist parliamentarian remarked: who expressed his “immense anger” at a measure which leaves “hundreds of children helpless and on the threshold of Christmas”.
“We are faced with desperate families because the Andalusian Government is eliminating almost 500 places in this public center,” declared the representative of the PSOE-A, who mentioned to the children who “are going to have to leave here to leave You don’t know where, on the periphery, to break a bond with your therapists that is part of the success of your treatment.”
Thus, Prieto warned that “these therapeutic setbacks may be irreversible.” “We are talking about small children for whom this therapy is essential to be able to walk, talk, understand and lead a decent life. “We cannot play with the lives of children,” stressed the socialist representative.
Likewise, he denounced the fact that early care throughout Andalusia “suffers chronic underfunding under the leadership of the PP, which gave rise to waiting lists” which he described as “indecent and shameful”.
According to María Ángeles Prieto, “a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder cannot wait a year and a half for treatment; “They are stealing our children’s future.”
Prieto framed this “new conflict” in the “brutal crisis that Andalusian public health is going through under the mandate of Moreno Bonilla”. “We are in the middle of a crisis due to screening failures of breast cancer, which has shattered the lives of thousands of women, and which is now shattering the lives of hundreds of children in Granada for no reason,” he lamented.
For all these reasons, Prieto demanded “an immediate stop to the elimination of places at CAI San Rafael and an urgent improvement in the financing of early care throughout the community.”
“This is a shame and a disaster that we will not allow. Moreno Bonilla must finance this right because he has the resources to do so,” he concluded.
Suffering
On the other hand, the PSOE-A explained that, during the rally, Loreta, one of the mothers involved, “gave voice to the suffering of hundreds of families who have been living in uncertainty since the 16th.”
“They don’t make our job easier, they make our lives more complicated,” Loreta warned about the Council’s decision to “close places in this center.” “These kids don’t go to English classes; They have special characteristics and need their therapists. Change centers and professionals This represents a huge setback, especially for autistic children where rigidity is part of their reality,” she said, “visibly moved.”
Loreta denounced the “ineptitude” of a Ministry of Health which “takes measures without taking into account professionals or the rights of minors”. “If the Council does not help me, I will have to remortgage my house so that my son get your therapy, but it’s a right we pay taxes for. “Where are the rights of our children here?” he asked after demanding that the measure be “immediately paralyzed due to the lack of logical and health explanations” to support this reduction.
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