About 10,000 people, including health workers, have protested against Spain's health care austerity in downtown Madrid.
Many of the rally dressed in white, and began marching early Sunday, from four large hospitals on the outskirts of the capital to converge on central Puerta del Sol square. They have been angered by austerity measures, including budget cuts and plans to partly privatize some of Spain’s national health care service.
Demonstrators they take part in a protest against the local government's plans to cut spending
on public health care in Madrid November 18, 2012.
Some protesters said they were outraged by Madrid regional government’s plans to convert a large hospital specialising in rare and infectious diseases into a home for old people and sell it.
The protesters said their public health service was not for sale.
Protestors carry a doll representing a corpse of a doctor and a banner
reading, "they sell your health", and "health care rest in peace" as
Spanish flags wave in the background during a demonstration against
government-imposed austerity measures and labor reforms in the public
health care sector in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
Demonstrators they take part in a protest against the local government's plans to cut spending
on public health care in Madrid November 18, 2012.
Demonstrators raise their hands as they take part in a protest against the local government's
plans to cut spending on public health care in Madrid November 18, 2012.
Demonstrators shout as they take part in a protest against the local government's plans to cut
spending on public health care in Madrid November 18, 2012.
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