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MARBELLA GAZETTE

Sunday 24 June 2012

Dentist is sleeping in his car as he can't afford a flat

Javier Castilla, who works as a supply dentist for the Andalucía Health Service, SAS, has found himself obliged to sleep in his car, and old Hyundai, which he is parking currently next to the health centre in La Carihuela in Torremolinos. The problem is that he cannot rent a flat as the SAS only take him on, and give him a contract, for a few days, and in different centres in the region. Unions CSI-F has denounced the case and says the situation is down to the health cuts in the Junta. Javier sleeps in the car where he has installed a mattress, he washes in the health centre toilets, and he keeps his possessions in a suitcase in his consulting room. He has been without a fixed contract for a year, but the SAS call him when they need cover. In one example he had to replace a dentist in Priego de Córdoba who had broken both his arms in a traffic accident. The four months he was promised there turned out to be just ten days.

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