The regional government of Madrid, the Spanish capital, has decided to privatize the management of public medical centers as well as hospitals. On Sunday, thousands of health workers were seen protesting against the plans.

Though they are on strike since past one month, on Sunday they stood against the budget cuts being planned by the government. The nurses, doctors and health workers are also against the plan to charge patients a fee of 1 euro for any of their prescriptions.

It has been found that it is the third rally conducted by health workers since the plans were introduced by the local authorities in October. The strike was launched in the previous month, which the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's centre-right government denied from endorsement.

The report uncovered that patients are being seen only on Fridays and not from Monday-Thursday due to strikes. And this time, they yelled "Health is not for sale and Health 100% public, no to privatizations".

"Of course, privatization can be reversed. Actually the question is not if it can be reversed, because privatization should never have a future", an unemployed man from Madrid Luis Alvarez was quoted as saying.