Overview
- Fifteen to sixteen local collectives coordinating across Castilla y León announced a joint protest in Valladolid on February 21 under the slogan “Paremos su destrucción. Nos va la vida en ello.”
- The march is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. in Plaza Mayor and end at the Health Ministry on Paseo de Zorrilla, where a manifesto will be read, with buses being chartered from provincial towns.
- Organizers accuse the Junta of underfunding Primary Care at about 17% of health spending versus a 25% benchmark and cite staff shortages and the hiring of doctors without the Family Medicine specialty.
- They allege “engineering” of waiting‑list data, pointing to thousands not counted for first specialist consults and to specialty queues they say reach 283,000 patients.
- The platforms plan complaints to the Procurador del Común over longer waits for patients who refuse private referrals, and they situate the action ahead of the March 15 regional elections.