Coque Malla defends healthcare workers after his son’s hospitalization: “From now on, I want, above all, a healthy, strong, and fair public healthcare system”

To the slow rhythm of his song Berlin, Coque Malla (Madrid, 56 years old) sings with his guitar in front of a group of healthcare workers in the latest video posted on his Instagram profile (148,000 followers). The song, included in his 2009 album The Hour of the Giants, is the way the singer wanted to thank the team of professionals in the pediatric wing of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz for taking care of his youngest son in recent days. A gratitude that the former leader of the group Los Ronaldos wanted to share with his followers on this social network with the text accompanying his impromptu performance in front of the doctors, in which he made a plea in favor of the Spanish public health system.

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“I have always defended, and deeply believed in, public healthcare and the importance of its protection by citizens through the tools we have: basically, the ballot boxes,” begins the text read alongside the video, in which the singer is seen sitting on a chair and barefoot, singing for the healthcare staff watching him right in front, seated in another chair. “It seems sensible — no matter your ideology — to vote for those politicians who protect a system through which, a good part of our taxes, guarantee us hospitals, medicines, doctors and medical staff in general, who when we get sick, cure us; or directly, save the lives of us, our parents, friends, siblings… and our children. In my opinion, it is not a moral or ideological issue, but a practical one,” it continues.

Although without giving details about what happened, the actor also reveals in the text the difficult days he has just experienced with his family: “After 15 very complicated and distressing days with our youngest son hospitalized (we are now safely at home), I have become aware that this way of thinking comes from a rather selfish place: we want public healthcare to cure us, to keep us well.”

And he goes further in his reflection. Not stopping at what already seems obvious, the musician adds: “The lesson of professionalism, lucidity, generosity, temperance, good humor, understanding, patience, kindness, prudence, calm, talent, and joy that my wife and I have received from the doctors and female doctors, nurses and male nurses, assistants, orderlies, and cleaning staff — ALL — has made me change that selfish point of view.”

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“I want public healthcare that cures me and mine, but from now on, I want, above all, a healthy, strong, and fair public healthcare system, so that those angels (forgive the cheesiness, but all those wonderful people who have cared for and pampered us are the closest thing I have seen to angels) rest as they should, earn what they should earn, and see all their superhuman effort fairly and generously rewarded. A public healthcare system with sufficient means to try to give back everything they do for us,” concludes this kind of manifesto, which has accumulated more than 60,000 Likes and more than 2,000 comments. Among them, those of well-known faces such as music journalist Virginia Díaz, who wrote: “I couldn’t agree more. I’m infinitely glad your son is well”; or politicians like Nadia Calviño, who celebrated that he has “valued our healthcare system,” besides confessing that she went through a similar experience this summer. Other names have expressed themselves in the comments about this defense of public healthcare by the singer, such as chef Jordi Roca, who, more sparing in words, celebrated it with heart and raised hands emojis; or actor and comedian José Corbacho, who showed concern for the singer’s son with these words: “I hope everything is fine. A hug to you and your family.”

“Thanks from the soul on behalf of my wife, our children, and myself, to the Fundación Jiménez Díaz and to each and every one of its workers. Very especially (with permission from the rest), to the incredible head of the pediatric ward, her team, and their wonderful nurses,” Malla concludes his text on the social network, which he signs along with Macarena, his partner and mother of their two children, Cayena (13 years old) and Oliver (8 years old).

In December 2023, during a meeting with EL PAÍS readers, the musician spoke about how the creative process is painful for him because insecurity makes him distrust himself, but also about how happy touring makes him: “You eat, you drink, you travel, you get on stage and connect with people,” he said then.

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