The Council of Ministers yesterday approved the creation of the entity, which will be outside of Madrid
The Council of Ministers yesterday approved the bill for the implementation of the National Center for Public Health, an organization with which Minister Carolina Darias wants to harmonize the powers of the health system and prepare it to act in the face of any threat to public health. The entity is called to improve coordination between the autonomous communities and state agencies, as well as responses to health crises such as Covid.
The central government has already made it clear that it will be located outside of Madrid. Aragon, Andalusia or the Valencian Community are some of the autonomies that have raised their hands to welcome it. The Region of Murcia also looks ready. The Community “would be willing to host a center of these characteristics, since we have been a national benchmark in terms of monitoring and tracking of Covid,” sources from the Ministry of Health stressed yesterday. The Region “meets the conditions, since it has led the health management of the pandemic and the level of its health professionals is extraordinary,” these sources insisted.
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However, there is no evidence that, beyond these statements, efforts have been made to take over this precious reference center. “At the moment, this specific issue has not been addressed with the communities, which depends on the approval of the law,” they explain from the Ministry. “We do not know the mechanism by which the central government will choose to decide the location or what the criteria will be when choosing a territory,” these sources add.
The Ministry sees the future National Center for Public Health as one of its assets to improve Spanish public health, just as similar agencies have done in countries such as France or Germany. Thus, Minister Darias assured yesterday that “it is a necessity to address situations that require anticipation and rapid response.”
The center, according to Health, will have “functional autonomy” to exercise “the powers of analysis and study, evaluation of policies and public interventions, advice, proposal of measures to the authorities and preparation and coordination of responses to emergency situations.”
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