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Since the beginning of the 2000s, austerity and the privatization of hospitals have slashed the number of available beds and taken them out of public hands.
Concretely,
The number of hospital beds per capita has decreased in all EU countries;
The share of beds managed by commercial establishments has increased in all European countries; today, more than 20% of hospital beds in Europe are in the hands of commercial actors.
As a result, health care costs have increased and are now borne by the sick, reinforcing a two-tier system. But more importantly, they have undermined the system’s ability to respond to a pandemic such as the coronavirus.
To get out of this austerity- and privatisation-made disaster, Alter Summit calls for:
- An end to government austerity, which only benefits the private sector, and an end to privatizations;
- An increase in resources for public healthcare – both human and financial;
- Popular participation in defining healthcare needs and objectives.
Health is a universal common good, not the object of frenetic profiteering!
On World Health Day, April 7
We are mobilizing to liberate healthcare from the profit motive;
We support the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Right2Cure which demands a waiver for vaccine patents to allow the greatest number of people access to them. We call on everyone to sign: https://noprofitonpandemic.eu/ ;
We will link this to our other struggles - adequate income, safe housing, quality employment, education, a healthy environment, etc. - as they are also critical for our health.
#health4all
#noprofitonpandemic
#right2cure
More information about the April 7 campaign
International Call of Trade Unions for April 7
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