2023-11-21 15:23:22
The new Minister of Health, Mónica García, stressed this Tuesday that she will work “listening” to everyone to reach “large urgent and necessary agreements” that will allow us to once again boast about public health “to the world.” “I want to be the minister of all Spaniards,” she guaranteed.
The new Minister of Health, Mónica García (c), accompanied by the second vice president Yolanda Díaz (i), receives the new portfolio from her predecessor José Manuel Miñones. EFE/ Juan Carlos Hidalgo
Mónica García has taken office as minister in a massive event supported by her family, including her father and her brother, and party colleagues such as Íñigo Errejón, Rita Maestre, Javier Padilla and Manuela Berguerot, who have burst into enormous applause for her arrival, in addition to the vice presidents Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera.
After taking the portfolio from her predecessor, José Miñones, who congratulated her for being the twenty-seventh minister and the first “anesthetist minister,” García thanked Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz for being able to now assume “a dream responsibility for a defender.” at all costs of public services.”
In a crowded room of Ernest Lluch, whose murder marks 23 years today, Mónica García has committed to continuing with “the enormous legacy” of who was also Minister of Health forty years ago, when “the first seeds” of the current National system of health.
Because the General Health Law that he promoted “was the first stone on the path to conceiving our health, not as just another public service, but as the heart that beats beneath our society and the jewel in the crown of our welfare state.” .
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, promises her position before King Felipe at the Zarzuela Palace. EFE/ Chema Moya
García assumes the position with the double task of “recovering pride in our healthcare” after the cuts that “mutilated” its universality in 2012: “It is time to recover the path of its greatness and to boast about it again to the world” , he emphasized.
A commitment that she will pursue with the same vocation for public service that has accompanied her “in and out of the operating room” at the 12 de Octubre Hospital; She has thanked her colleagues from the Madrid center for everything they have taught her “about life, professionalism, vocation and everything that can be transferred to politics and that makes politics better.”
And to the workers of the Ministry, to the professionals, to the unions, to the associations, to the scientific societies and to the sector in general, he has shown his “highest priority”, which is to “work while listening”.
It will also do so hand in hand with science and scientific evidence, because “politics that does not go hand in hand with scientific evidence is not political, it is quackery,” and with a “spirit of social agreement” with all communities. and civil society.
“I want to be the minister of all Spanish men and women. If there is something that unites us and that we are proud of as a country in these delicate times, it is our public healthcare and I am going to work hard to achieve great urgent and necessary pacts“, starting with one of the State for mental health “to make life hurt a little less.”
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He also aspires to settle the debt with the Primary Carewhich “in recent years has received too many attacks”, since shield universality during this legislature, trying to reverse “all the damage that was done” in 2012.
Without forgetting the care of SNS professionalswho are going to be “at the center of the system”, and of the patientswhich will be your main concern, in addition to adding visual and oral health benefits or early care.
“Today this ministry was born with a mission: to put our National Health System at the center,” stressed García, who concluded her first speech as minister with the “pride” of being able to say the words that she has repeated “so many times” out there: Long live public health!
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