british Prime Minister, Sunak Receipt, denial this Sunday disclose if you are using private medication amid a crisis in the public health system in the UK, which is facing long waiting lists, personnel and resource shortages, and strikes over wages and working conditions.

Sunak insisted his personal situation was “irrelevant” when asked about it by journalist Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday’s program on the BBC’s public channel.

“My policy is not to speak about my medical situation or that of my family. not really relevantWhat is relevant is what I can do for the country,” the conservative leader said.

Last November, newspapers Guardian published the Sunak, which property combined with his wife is estimated at 730 million pounds (approx €827 million), is registered with a private doctor in an affluent neighborhood in west London, who is present on-site in case of an emergency.

The Labor Opposition accused the Prime Minister of not realizing the impact on citizens problems faced by the Department of Health (NHS, in English), which, he argued, had not received sufficient funding during the last thirteen years of Tory rule.

Pressure to “confess”

Meanwhile, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen, the strike group, pushed Sunak on the television program. Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg a “admit” if you have private coverage.

“I think, as a public official, you have to explain to the public whether or not you use private health insurance,” the union leader said.

That head of government He gathered representatives from the health sector in Downing Street on Saturday to discuss the situation and called on them to take a “bold and radical” approach to solving the crisis, according to a government statement.

On Monday, the Secretary of Health, Steve Barclay, met with nurses’ unions to explain to them “what is affordable for nurses’ salaries?” nhs This year”.