Nursing homes reiterate their discomfort at the “discriminatory” treatment they suffer from the Ministry in favor of the disability sector
The Ministry of Social Policy pointed out last week that “the prices per place in Disability and in the Elderly have been updated, through an investment of more than 16 million euros by the regional government.” The increase in concerts agreed with nursing homes in April consists of a 13.13% rise progressively over three years. “Although the increase in the last two years is conditional on the approval of the Budgets. That is to say, more promises and few facts”, warn those responsible for private residences not associated with the platforms that reached the agreement with the Ministry. “This supposed agreement has not been included in any signed document, and who knows if there will be approved budgets in the years 2023 and 2024. And, therefore, who knows if these increases will become effective.” In this sense, these professionals recall that «the disability sector did not need any of these conditions; their increases were made ‘ipso facto’ and retroactively.
The centers will receive an increase of 13.13% until 2024, but subject to the approval of the regional Budgets
According to these same sources, “private nursing homes have continuously and ad nauseam claimed more means to provide the care that users deserve with dignity, and have only received rudeness, silence for an answer, or simply the discourse of ‘there is no money'”. An argument that, according to those responsible for private centers, “has been used even half an hour before regulations were published in which a retroactive rise to the disability group was made, and whose reason was the increase in the ‘specific needs derived of their disability situation, which have been exacerbated by the measures imposed by the pandemic’». There was also “another subsequent increase regarding this year, which has already been approved in the Community budgets and therefore is already being paid.” These increases in the price received by residences for people with disabilities are “deserved”, the same sources make clear, “although it should be noted that these centers remained closed due to legal imperatives at the beginning of the pandemic, unlike residences for the elderly” .
Next Generation Funds
This unequal situation also occurs, in the opinion of those responsible for private centers, with the distribution of ‘Next Generation’ funds, “of which their processing is already well advanced in relation to payment for centers for people with disabilities, while that for nursing homes has not even started ». All this, according to the same sources, generates greater frustration when it was the Minister of Social Policy herself who asked the representatives of the sector, in their first meeting, “about the cause of the large difference between the prices per place in disability centers and of older people. And, being surprised by this difference, she said that it should be corrected ».
“The disability sector did not need any conditions for increases ‘ipso facto’ and retroactively”
Industry sources consulted by LA VERDAD explain that the “greater agility and efficiency” in managing the needs of the disability sector is due exclusively to the “independence” of the General Directorate for Disability, led by Concepción Ruiz (PP), “That he has a lot of competence in this field, something that cannot be said of the rest of the leaders of the Ministry.”
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