Orsi: “Health is a right and can never be a business”

The candidate of Wide Front (FA), Yamandu Orsi, started the block on Human Development in it presidential debateand assured that “health is a right and can never be a business.”

In his speech, Orsi questioned the government’s health deficit, mainly related to care in health centers and the absence of disability policies.

“Talking about human development is talking about quality of life. Let’s start with health, which we know well is a right and can never be a business. First of all, we must shorten the waiting times to see a doctor or have the exams,” said the former mayor of Canelones.

And he added: “The second priority is to be able to access medicines in a timely manner, in an accessible manner. Expand the health system that the FA did and did so well in the pandemic. Things have to be corrected, such as complementarity, which has to work much better.”

Mental health

“We must give a guiding role to the MSP to make the institutions that provide us health work and mental health must be applied once and for all. “We all know the problem we are having,” said Orsi.

Along these lines, he added: “We must seek incentives to locate doctors and technicians in the interior of the country, a difficulty that we all experience. We must improve management in ASSE and provide it with resources, the same in police and military health.”

“Population growth made many people decide to go live on the coast. It is necessary to build a reference hospital between Maldonado and Montevideo, in Canelones.

Disability

“In disability, the first thing to do is comply with the regulations that already exist and there is one that is fundamental, which has to do with accessibility and the entry of the administration. In Canelones we made seven calls and today there are already 41 workers who entered through this type of calls, people with that type of difficulty,” Orsi highlighted.

“Secondly, we lived an experience of creating a rehabilitation center in Las Piedras, there was one in Maldonado. We propose to replicate this idea in the interior, north of the Río Negro,” he indicated.

And he questioned: “Why was Casa de Galicia dropped during this period and why is the creation of a Disability Secretariat repeated again in the Coalition’s government program when it was established by the previous one and was not fulfilled.”