The Dhaka Times Desk In a city where there is no medicine, hearing such news is like shocking news. But the fact is true. Valencia is a city in Spain. The country's central government and many regional and provincial governments are burdened with debt. And so they can't even buy medicine for their basic needs!
The euro zone debt crisis has brought enormous suffering to public life in Spain. Not only the central government of the country but many regional and provincial governments are burdened with debt. Spain's cities and town authorities are in such dire straits that they are unable to invest the necessary amounts in their social spending sectors. It affects the lives of marginalized people. Marginalized and poor people are fully dependent on regional government to meet their education and medical expenses. But due to the financial crisis, regional governments are not able to meet the needs of these people, nor can they rely on the central government for solutions. Because the central government is burdened with debt even more than they are because of the Eurozone crisis. Valencia is such a critical region of Spain.
According to the BBC, the government there even borrowed the capital of various pharmacies in crisis to meet their own needs. As a result, essential medicines have become scarce in Valencia. A notice is hung in a pharmacy that the government has taken a loan. In which it is written, important information - the government has taken all the medicines of this pharmacy as a loan. Pharmacist Paula of the pharmacy was saying, not only this, the government has taken a loan of 50 crore rupees from almost all the pharmacies in Valencia. As a result, they are not able to keep the necessary medicines.
Paula pointed to her insulin drawer and said it was always full. But now there are only two packets of insulin. If more than one customer comes, the shops do not have necessary medicines including insulin to give them. Paula also said that in this case people can only go to their neighbors for urgent needs. There is nothing else to do. Pharmacy owners do not have money to keep medicines. However, the corruption and indiscretion of the administration of Valencia are responsible for such a bad situation. Several big projects have been taken up without proper planning and transparent rules of government expenditure. Which are of no use to people. On the contrary, due to these, the government is trapped in a huge debt net. Notable among these is the construction of a huge opera house on the model of Sydney. The opera house, built with 40 million euros, does not hold 15 performances a year. Huge airports have been built in places where airplanes never fly. In this way people have to pay the loss of unnecessary projects made for corruption and waste by not getting essential products like daily medicine and education. So think where corruption can stop people? (Based on Online News)
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