Varapalo for the Government and, especially, for the Ministry of Health of Mónica García. Almost fifteen years have passed since Spain raised the need to create a public health agency to, among other things, alert and control sanitary threats. This was contemplated by the General Public Health Law of 2011. After the Covid-19 Pandemia, which arrived without our country having that center, the idea resurfaced and this Thursday, more than five years later, the Congress of Deputies has lying the project in a plenary in which the tension has been growing at times.
Although in the Health Commission he had obtained the approval of all parties except Vox, finally the plenary, marked by the tension between government and opposition parties, he has rejected his approval. The popular ones, who have been critical of the project, have changed the meaning of their vote, so that it has not come forward, since it has also had the vote against Junts. Thus, compared to 167 ‘Sies’ there have been 176 ‘Noes’ and two abstentions.
The Plenary had come, trusting that they had the support for a green light that has finally not arrived, in addition to the Minister of Health, Mónica García, other positions related to public health such as the director of the Coordination Center for Alerts and Health Emergencies, Fernando Simón.
Precisely the references to Simon have been some of the issues that have generated the most tension in the plenary. Vox deputy David García Gomis has referred to the director of the CCAES as a “puppet” of the government for the role he played in the pandemic. In addition, he has defended the vote against his training ensuring that the AESAP will become “a beach bar” of the Executive.
Also the popular deputy María del Mar Vázquez has shaved the Executive that the AESAP was to be born “without financing, without guarantee of independence and with a great risk of serving only for political control and propaganda.” In this sense, the ELA law has referred, since although the aid has been in force without reaching those affected by the absence of financing to develop it. “We are going if before this agency is born we already know who is postulated,” he added in reference to Fernando Simón.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has criticized the references to Fernando Simón and has assured that the AESAP is “a debt of the past and commitment to the future.”
Other reforms
The parties that make up the Government, PSOE and add, had also taken advantage of the processing of this rule to reform the Law on Game Regulation. Specifically, new limitations to the advertising of the companies of the game sector were introduced, such as the prohibition of the appearance in commercial communications of people or characters of relevance or public notoriety, whether these real or fiction, with some exceptions.
Also through amendments it was intended to modify through this project the Law of Guarantees and Rational Use of Medicines and Health Products, specifically the article that regulates the drug price system to leave certain groups of drugs outside this system.
The project to resume the creation of a public health agency was resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic. The rule carried in the lower house more than a year waiting for an agreement that this Thursday, suddenly, has broken. The objective of its creation was the coordination of the Public Health Surveillance Network, the monitoring of health threats and the realization of risk assessments. In addition, he was also going to be responsible for coordinating the elaboration of health preparation and response plans “before alerts, risks and current and emerging threats for human health of biological, chemical and any other nature without prejudice to the competences assigned to other administrations.”
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