With the participation of a dozen neighbors of Villanueva de La Serena and nearby towns, and in the absence of all public representatives invited (Municipality of Villanueva, territorial delegation of health of the Junta de Extremadura), the Social Forum Villanueva held a discussion titled "What about public health in Villanueva?."
act and introduced the speakers Carmen Almena, president of the Social Forum. Then Jesús Gómez Romero, vice president of the Forum, gave an overview of the situation of health services in Villanueva de La Serena, referring to different information and evidence of malfunction collected by the Forum. He also reviews the claims of the Commission of People Affected by the transfer of services from Plaza Medical Center of Salamanca, who in recent months staged several concentrations in the street and presented to the relevant bodies half thousand signatures against the decision Extremadura Health Service. Romero Gomez blasted public services policy of the government team Villanueva of the current City Council, which "only concerned with the works" and denied any legitimacy and representativeness, associations and neighborhood. Then Francisco Javier Galan, representing Izquierda Unida de Villanueva de La Serena , blamed the current mayor of Villanueva de renege on the maintenance of medical emergencies in the Plaza de Salamanca, and remained in campaign , presented figures showing the decline in the quality of health services in Extremadura from full transfer of medical skills to the Community and noted the failure of the commitment of the Board to have one room per patient in the public health system. "Now," complained Galán, "there are two or three patients in the hospital room Don Benito-Villanueva, and while we end up patients in the hallways." To complete this first round of introductory statements, Jónatham F. Moriche, secretary of the Social Forum, analyzed the effect of the current economic crisis on public services , criticizing the bailout of the financial sector with public funds should be devoted to social needs and calling to "make the public a contested terrain" in defense of fundamental rights of citizenship.
In the ensuing discussion, which lasted over an hour, it elaborated on the many examples of deficiencies alleged by the residents of Villanueva in the field of public health, and touched on other topics of interest to the locality and the lack of transparency and authoritarian tendencies in the management of the current mayor, Miguel Angel Gallardo, low participation, its causes and the role that the Social Forum itself can play in their mobilization.
