2023-11-27 11:05:00
Madrid, Nov 27 (EFE).- The Minister of Health, Mónica García, admitted this Monday that the current times require rulers to have “higher vision to reach agreements” that start from the “recognition of the rest of the actors as interlocutors valid and put social well-being above the short-term battles of the parties”.
In her speech at the 32nd meeting of national ethics councils, the first as Minister of Health, García warned that “challenges in the face of the growth of mental health problems cannot be faced by digging trenches, but rather by building bridges to take measures that improve people’s lives.
And this issue is a priority for the minister who intends to elevate mental health to a State pact, as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, committed to in his investiture speech.
The head of Health added that “one of the principles of policy must be, like clinical ethics, to do no harm.”
And he has stated that in Spain there have been times when policies have been adopted “knowing” that there would be people who would suffer them “in their own flesh.”
Here he has referred to the amputation of the universality of the health system, the implementation of co-payments for medicines, the deterioration of health services and the increase in waiting lists.
“All of this,” he said, “knowing that many of these measures would mean inflicting damage on the health of thousands of people. This is unacceptable and, the first thing, is to do no harm, also in politics.” EFE
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