Healthcare cuts putting lives at risk

The healthcare budget of the public system has been mauled over the last four years. This is set to continue into 2014. There are two consequences.

The first is that service provision has been cut to pieces. The second is that medical risk has increased, so that lives are at risk. Notwithstanding new institutional structures, the dysfunctionality and the contradictions in policy are evident.

The cuts and the ‘savings’ have depopulated the public system of medical and nursing staff.