Health to address with the CCAA the lack of professionals in primary school on December 18

2023-12-07 18:04:22

Updated Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 17:04

The minister sets the Plenary Session of the Human Resources Commission for that day after pressure from the PP regions, which have described Mónica García’s first IC as disappointing.

The Minister of Health, Mónica García, during the first telematic Interterritorial Council that she has chaired.EL MUNDOSHealth The PP will ask Mónica García for an urgent Interterritorial Council to address the lack of Primary Care doctors

As planned, the first Interterritorial Council (IC) chaired by the Minister of Health, Mónica García, electronically, has approved the distribution of a total of 2.5 million euros between the communities and autonomous cities destined to obtain of plasma through plasmapheresis within the framework of the National Strategy for Self-Sufficiency in Plasma.

At the same meeting, the minister called the Health Ministers to a new meeting next Monday the 11thin a new extraordinary IC and at the request of several regions, according to the ministry, who have requested more time to analyze the distribution of 42.8 million eurosagreed at a plenary session of the IC on June 23, for different programs for the rational use of medicine, cancer surveillance and bone marrow donation.

This first IC of García has been preceded by the protest by PP councilors, majority in the Interterritorial Council, who have described the meeting as “disappointing” for not addressing in this first meeting of the minister the problem of the lack of professionals that mainly affects primary care and that the majority of counselors see as a “issue of State”.

Thus, at the end of the telematic meeting, the minister reported that the next day Dec. 18 The Plenary Session of the Human Resources Commission of the IC will address the issue.

The Minister of Health of Madrid, Ftima Matutestated at the end of the meeting that, from the Community of Madrid, a “General Human Resources Plan in which this lack of professionals is valued, the need to increase places, both in universities and the accreditation of teaching units and of course the number of training places.

Matute has added that this increase in places should not stick “only to medicinebut also for nurses, for clinical psychologists… because we are going to have an even bigger problem year after year,” he noted.

But December 18 will not be the last meeting that the ministry holds with the Health Ministers in this last month of the year, since, according to the minister herself, On the 21st there will be an “in-person plenary session of the Interterritorial Council in Asturias”.

Regarding this meeting, both the Madrid councilor and other regional councilors have expressed their surprise and disagreement with the call, since, Most of the counselors are immersed in budget meetings. “We have pointed out that these are important issues and we have requested that reconsider the date and the place to be able to go”, explained Matute, who confirmed, at the same time, that he will be there, although “of course I believe – he added – that it must be facilitated, especially in this first meeting, for all the councilors to be able to be there.” “to discuss more issues and to work for health is what we are here for.”

In the Plenary Session of Asturias, the minister explained: “We will give term to other pending transfers de ms de 200 million euros regarding rare diseases, genomics and digitalization and I am sure that we will be able to debate the issue that most concerns citizens, which is waiting list time for a specialist, for surgery or for a diagnostic test. “Waiting lists make people desperate and it will be a priority task of this ministry to work consensually with the autonomous communities.”

A task that her five predecessors in office also had in the Pedro Sánchez Government and that, unlike the current Minister of Health, they had an Interterritorial Council with a majority on the left. Now, García will have a largely popular IC in front of him.

With the planned agenda, the minister celebrated that, in just one monthyour department will have celebrated “three plenary sessions of the Interterritorial Health Council” and added: “As we have said from the beginning, this ministry is not going to relent in its commitment to dialogue, to the firm will to agree to strengthen our National Health System and to improve the lives of people”.