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Women's Health Protest in Barakaldo
  • May 28 is International Day of Action for Women’s Health. Summoned by 18 women’s agents from the left and the Minefield, the concentration takes place in front of the health center of Barakaldo. They denounce that the Osakidetza does not guarantee regular revisions of gynecology and demand feminist training for health workers.
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“Women have plenty of healthy reasons to complain,” she said. The coordinator against precariousness, poverty and exclusion, Baladre, has indicated on his website the reasons for the action: In Osakidetza, women without "symptoms" do not receive regular gynecological revisions. "This raises concerns about women's health at a time when cuts in social spending are continuing, especially in Osakidetza." They also provided a data: "The public expenditure of the Basque Country on Health is 5.4% of the Gross Domestic Product, much lower than the European average and also lower than that of the Spanish state, which represents 6.4% of GDP in the state."

Photo by: House in Ecuador.

On Radio Info7, Jon Mikel Fernández interviews Karmele Osaita of the Advisory House for Women in the Light (listen here, in full, in Spanish). She emphasizes that the fact that the public health does not offer gynecological revisions to those who do not have symptoms has led women with economic resources to resort to private medicine to carry out the following revisions and denounces: “Women who suffer from poverty will be left without women’s specialty health care, which we cannot accept.”

Photo by: House in Ecuador.

Feminist training for Osakidetza workers

Osakidetza workers say that receiving feminist training would help to better serve women, for example, so that they do not feel humiliated or embarrassed when asking questions about sexuality. Osaita points out that the questions are asked in a "heterosexual" model, and that there is a need to understand sexuality in its broadest sense, "with an open mind, including all the different practices that exist." The Baladre website also calls for overcoming the "sexual stigma of women".

Photo by: House in Ecuador.

Restricting the rights of women with functional diversity

It has been stated on the Baladre website that functional diversity is not a disease and that the health system must also respond to its characteristics. They claim that their rights are violated because the buildings are not accessible to everyone. During the consultations for the explorations, the lack of adaptations in the mobiliary and the equipment has been reported.

Photo by: House in Ecuador.

The specific claims

The following five specific claims have been socialized through the previous concentration of the health center in Barakaldo:

- Have regular, preventive, and complete gynecological revisions.

- Free and free access to contraceptives and voluntary termination of pregnancy.

- The adaptation and accessibility of quality care services for women with functional diversity and the personal format.

- Disseminate information, education and feminist training on sexuality (menopause, affection-sexual relations, sexual and reproductive health...)

- Feminist training for professionals who care for girls and women.

 

Agents who have called concentration

- Cheerful women's association.

- Neba-Neba Women's Association.

- We're walking.

- Women's Cultural Center of Mamariga.

- Gorantza, Santurtzi Women for Health

- Fekoor Women ' s Equality Commission

- Young Women of the Barakaldo Iretargius

- Portuguese Feminist Meeting Place

- Marimatraka Santurtzi Feminist Group

- Women's Team of Amaris Trapagaran

- Andere Bidatz Portuguese Feminist Group

- In the light, the Barakaldo Women's Advisory Center

- Women ' s Cultural Associations: The Friends of Sanfuentes, Gallarta, Emelka, Muzkiz, Zierbana and Portugalete.