Valladolid (EFE).- The spokesman for the Junta de Castilla y León, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, has rejected this Thursday the proposal of the CESM Medical Union and the professional associations of Community Physiciansto focus attention on health centers and not on local clinics, because “the solution is not to close the clinics”, of which there are more than 3,600.
“The solution is not not to provide services in the clinics,” Carriedo summarized in the press conference after the Governing Council, after yesterday presenting CESM and the medical associations their proposal to review the “expired” Community health model to through “a high-level agreement” between the administrations and professionals to avoid “the collapse” of the system and actually close the clinics .
The spokesman has stressed that although the Board is “sensitive” to the demands of professional groups, its mission is also to think “of citizens in general” and has defended “continuing to maintain” the model of rural clinics, despite the fact that it has recognized the existing problem of lack of doctors to currently assist them
MIR so as not to close the offices
In this sense, Carriedo has indicated that the solution is for the Government of Spain to expand the training capacity of the MIR and expedite the recognition of titles for foreign professionals who have worked exceptionally during the pandemic and who in some cases still do not have their legal status regularized. situation, which prevents them from carrying out their function in Sacyl.
“There is no clear answer, quite the contrary, it is difficult,” remarked the spokesman for the Board, who has ruled out that the refusal to apply the doctors’ proposal on rural clinics and health centers has to do with its resemblance to the so-called Plan Aliste promoted by the previous Minister of Health, Verónica Casado (Cs).
In this sense, the spokesperson has argued that the majority of the inhabitants of rural areas “are older people” with mobility difficulties, so it is necessary that the doctor’s care occurs “in their locality and in the office that is available”. , instead of “concentrating” care in health centers, which is what the medical associations propose.
Regarding the commitment acquired by the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, to shield by law the provision of health services in rural areas, Carriedo has said that it is a legislature commitment and the first year of implementation has not yet been covered. the same, for which it has taken for granted that it will be over the period of four years when it is carried out. EFE
