The SMS reorganizes its five general subdirectorates to “strengthen” the first level of care, emergencies and mental health
The Minister of Business and spokesperson for the regional government, Valle Miguélez, responded yesterday to the growing discomfort in Primary Care by placing the ball in the field of the Ministry of Health. The situation that the first level of care is going through “is not just a problem in the Region of Murcia, but in the whole country, and that is why we have asked the Ministry for an urgent measure plan,” Miguélez said to questions from the media. , after the celebration of the Council of Government.
“As a community, we are doing our homework,” defended Miguélez, and gave as an example “the hiring of 5,000 professionals” to cover the summer throughout the health system (both hospitals and health centers). The deficits that Primary faces are “a problem of the State, of the country, and the Ministry must take measures,” he insisted.
The spokesperson for the regional government made these statements when asked about the claims that the medical coordinators of 77 of the 86 health centers in the Region raised to the Ministry of Health in mid-May. This Wednesday, the coordinators took stock of the situation again and warned that Primary is “in a limit situation.” Professionals attribute the “extreme precariousness” in Primary Care “to budget abandonment in recent years.”
In the midst of this controversy, the SMS announced yesterday a restructuring of its five general sub-directorates. “Primary Care, Hospital Care, Mental Health and Urgencies and Emergencies are specifically reinforced,” explained the Ministry. A specific subdirectorate for Primary Care is created.
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