London, 11 Jan. The British Prime Minister, the Conservative Rishi Sunak, finally admitted on Wednesday that he used private medicine in the past, following weeks of conjecture regarding whether he would resort to public health, which is going through a deep crisis due to waiting lists and insufficient financing.
On Sunday, Sunak had refused to tell the BBC if he sees a private doctor, saying it was “not relevant”, following the press reported late last year that the prime minister is registered with a doctor. private from a wealthy London neighborhood, who attends to emergencies.
In the weekly control session to the prime minister in the House of Commons, the head of the Executive acknowledged today for the first time that he used “independent” (private) health in the past.
“I am registered with an NHS (Public Health) doctor. I have used independent medicine in the past and I am also grateful to Friarage Hospital (North of England) for the fantastic care my family has received over the years,” he added.
That hospital is in the county of North Yorkshire, where Richmond, the constituency of the prime minister, is located.
It is estimated that the family fortune of Sunak (married to Akshata Murty, heiress to a business empire in India and who was involved in a scandal of tax exemptions in the United Kingdom) amounts to more than 730 million pounds (regarding 827 million of euros).
The Labor opposition has criticized the Government for the crisis facing public health and for “ruining” the NHS during the last thirteen years of the Conservative Executive. EFE
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