(Finance) – CGIL and UIL in the square in Rome on 20 April at 9.30 am for the national demonstration on health and safety, the right to treatment and public health, tax reform and wage protection under the slogan of “enough is enough!”.
The procession will start from Viale Aventino at 10.30 and will end in Piazzale Ostiense where the general secretaries of CGIL and UIL, Maurizio Landini and Pierpaolo Bombardieri, will intervene. 20 gazebos will be set up in the square, one for each regionwith the critical issues of the different regional health systems.
“We need to take to the streets and mobilize to obtain those rights, starting from the right to non-precarious work, health, social justice and education, which as far as we are concerned remain the strategic objectives”, said Landini at the presentation press conference. “This year is the year of contract renewal. 12 million people have this issue and for us this season must lead to a real increase in wages, in the public and private sectors”, he added.
“The themes of mobilization – declared the general secretary of Uil, Pierpaolo Bombardieri – they also concern the right to health, the desire to have healthcare as provided for by the constitution, universal, free”.
Bombardieri indicates that in Italy, 30 thousand doctors, 80 thousand nurses and 70 thousand healthcare workers are missing. In a decade, 125 hospitals were closed in Italy, 12% and, according to Gimbe data, 2 million citizens no longer seek treatment for economic reasons.