Last time I looked, more than 96,000 people had already signed a campaign to collect signatures of the Cris cancer research foundation to ask the Government to commit to financing scientific activity in the fight once morest child cancer.
Among the paragraphs of the manifesto is this: “In our country, research into the fight once morest cancer, and more specifically that directed at childhood cancer, constitutes an exception in our hospitals. In a continuous search for funding, the research is carried out by hiring fellows and associate researchers who support doctors who investigate outside of their normal working hours. Clinical research in childhood cancer should be a priority in our current society. We cannot allow the survival of thousands of lives to continue marked by the instability of the fellows at the forefront of the research that might save them. If each year more than 200,000 new cases of cancer are detected in Spain, when will research be a priority?
The campaign is timely to remember that we need to have enough medical, nursing and other health professionals for quality care in all areas of public health, but also for teaching (including ongoing training) and for the investigation. That is, the absurd stinginess of some regional administrations when it comes to providing human resources to the respective health systems that they directly finance, govern and manage is bad for current patients, but also for those who will come in the medium and long term.
Research is synonymous with advances which, along with other factors, have a decisive influence on the increase in life expectancy and social and economic development.
Health workers, with their scientific activity, contribute to a better knowledge of diseasess and its causes, the development of new medical and surgical therapies, the design and validation of medical equipment and technology, the best and earliest diagnosis of health problems, etc. The types of medical research are so varied – interventional, observational, cross-sectional, screening, cohort, preventive, quality of life, experimental treatments (innovative drugs, surgical procedures, advanced therapies), compassionate trials, genetic studies,… – such as the health problems they address.
All this activity, along with care and teaching, is essential for medicine to advance and to respond to the individual needs of individuals and of society as a whole. and that fundamental activity it must be defended, promoted and guaranteed both for professionals in the hospital environment and for those in primary and community care; public health and preventive medicine, and other specialties.
And that fundamental activity must be defend it, promote it and even guarantee it both for professionals in the hospital environment and for those in primary and community care, public health and preventive medicine and other specialties.
in the conflict in defense of public health and a better treatment of its professionals that is being experienced in some autonomous communities underlies a growing concern for the accessibility, quality and safety of care and advances in the prevention, diagnosis and early detection, treatment and follow-up of, especially , serious and very serious diseases.
Who might have imagined this scenario at the beginning of the pandemic, when the health crisis put the lives and economies of practically the entire planet in jeopardy and the need to have robust public health systems with powerful basic and clinical research structures and resources?
Some politicians with government responsibility, surprisingly, seem to suffice with barely cover the day-to-day demand for assistanceas if with their children, their parents and themselves it was not also easy access to services, good quality and safety in care and faster achievement and incorporation of medical advances.
The call for more research on Cris counting cancer it’s for children with cancer, but his campaign well deserves a signature for scientific advances in all of medicine. Demanding it is not “politicization”; it is plain and simple to defend the health and well-being of all citizens without exception, current and future ones.