The protest, carried out on December 17, aimed to remind the Generalitat and the L'Hospitalet City Council that they must execute the hospital project promised in the Can Rigal area. According to the demonstrators, the General Hospital, managed by the Consorci Sanitari Integral, has become obsolete.
The spokesperson for the entity, Miguel Ángel Silva, pointed out that the hospital's obsolescence forces residents to travel to centers like Moisès Broggi in Sant Joan Despí, which is also suffering from saturation. Furthermore, they warned that the Bellvitge Hospital cannot absorb the population of the northern part of the city without a massive expansion of facilities and staff.
“"The Bellvitge hospital is also saturated, because besides serving 150,000 people from the South zone of L'Hospitalet, it also has to serve other towns in the Baix Llobregat, so adding the 150,000 inhabitants of the North zone is not a solution."
The Marea Pensionista also expressed skepticism regarding the complex that the Hospital Clínic has projected on the Diagonal strip, on the border with L'Hospitalet. They believe this project will only decongest the Barcelona hospital and will not solve local needs, in addition to questioning whether its management model will be fully public.
Finally, the group reiterated its demand to repeal state law 15/97, which allowed the management of health services through private companies and mixed consortia, with the aim of ensuring 100% public healthcare.
