British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, during an emergency meeting with health experts and officials on Saturday, called for a “bold and radical” approach to finding solutions to the country’s severe health crisis. for influenza and Covid-19.
And the lists of patients in need of surgery have become long, and in the country, against the backdrop of a crisis in the cost of living, there is the first protest movement of nurses in more than 100 years, in which paramedics participate.
This situation prompted the government, accused of inaction, to organize an emergency meeting on Saturday to try to find a way out of the crisis.
Before the health experts and sector officials who hosted him at Downing Street, Sunak, who made the medical card one of his five priorities for the new year, felt that “the status quo will not solve the problems we face.”
“During the pandemic, we had to be bold and radical in our actions to deal with it. I think we need the same bold and radical approach now.”
“Together today we can identify things that will be of great importance for the country and for every family in the short and medium term,” he continued.
In an effort to end strikes affecting healthcare and other sectors, the government also called on unions to hold discussions on Monday.