Spanish medical workers protest over cost-control efforts
- Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 02.44
- Online news: World
Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.
Spanish protesters take part in a demonstration in Madrid on February 17, 2013. Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers, many wearing white lab coats, demonstrated Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.
Several thousand people marched to Madrid's central Plaza de Cibeles from 27 hospitals in the region, waving signs that read "Your health is being sold" and "Cutting back on health care is a crime".
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