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The announcement gives 
figures that are totally wrong.

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Absolutely wrong!

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They don't match
what we

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see in the clinic,

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with the work that
we do every day.

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I am a psychiatrist at the
hospital and day clinic .

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I work in two
facilities at the same time

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because of the staff shortage
at the hospital.

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There are not enough staff

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because, due to 
the working conditions,

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a salary that has been
stagnant for over a year

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and precarious contracts
of three months,

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many staff have 
left the hospital.

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In my case, for example,
I started with a third

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of the patients
I look after today.

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In the last few months, I've 
started seeing three times as many.

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In the external outpatient clinics, 
I see 12 to 15 patients per day.

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They talk
about numbers

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that have nothing to do 
with what we do.

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Not only the 
psychiatrists,

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we work in an interdisciplinary 
way with psychologists,

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social work,
music therapy,

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occupational therapists...

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The hospital provides
universal care

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for psychological health and 
general medical care.

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We have dentistry, general
medical care, laboratory, pharmacy...

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It's a model 
hospital,

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and they're cutting it in a way
that it can't function.

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They claim that it 
wasn't working.

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That is a lie.

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The hospital never
stopped functioning.

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Since last Wednesday, when we 
learned of the 200 layoffs,

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we have been working with reduced, minimal
care, doing what we can,

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those of us who
have not been laid off yet,

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but we also
do not have a contract yet,

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those of us 
who have not been fired,

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don't have a contract
from the Ministry of Health,

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we provide our 
service all day long.

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Even the dismissed 
colleagues continue,

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because of their 
professional ethos,

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so that patients
are cared for.

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We continue to ensure the supply of
medications.

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We know our 
professional responsibility.

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What is not recognised is what is 
being done in this hospital

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and what we're talking about when 
we talk about intervention.

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I've been a 
psychiatrist for five years.

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Demand for 
psychiatric care

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is constantly increasing.

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The social and 
economic crisis,

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is continuing and
worsening and intensifying.

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We take care of a
very vulnerable population,

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but also of people who
have all kinds of social security,

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but who can't get appointments 
with their providers

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or the appointments are in
six months or a year from now,

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with serious illnesses,
with acute illnesses

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and we also take care
of them,

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by billing the
social security system.

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We leave no 
one unattended.

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Closing this sector 
also means

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denying a large portion 
of the population

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access to health care,

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not only to the poorest section or 
those with drug problems.