The opposition socialist party in Motril has asked the Mayor to intercede in the regional parliament to prevent her party from ending medical-staff work contracts.
The doctors and nurses in question were hired during the pandemic by the Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS).
PSOE (socialist) councillor, Alicia Crespo, calls for the primary-attention staff in Motril’s medical centres to be improved because there is a long waiting list.
Primary attention at medical centres and doctor’s surgeries during the pandemic were put on the back burner because of the priority needs on the public-health system caused by the pandemic, making it very difficult to get doctor appointments etc.
As well as the above points, the number of medical staff at the A&E of Hospital Santa Ana is also lacking, together with the specialist departments within the hospital.
Councillor Crespo claimed that the conservative-run SAS intends to let go 1,600 medical staff just within the province of Granada, many of whom are presently employed in Motril. She also claims that the Mayor remains silent about this because it is the doing of her own party.
Councillor Alicia Crespo also claims that it the present policy of the PP conservatives to run down the public-health sector to benefit the private sector. She also reminds the Mayor that the PP had promised not to terminate the contracts of these “very necesarry medical staff.”
Editorial comment: The money spent of the public-heatlh service during the pandemic is not an expense that can be maintained – it is an exceptional, health-care circumstance. Having said that, both the socialists and the conservatives have whittled away at the public health system across the country because of its running costs.
However, the PP does have a penchant for selling off public hospitals (Madrid) to the private sector, leaving themselves very unprepared for the pandemic. The Madrid regional-government PM made a big show of opening a brand-new hospital but failed to equip it both in material and personnel – she said that they intended transferring existing, overworked staff from their other hospitals. The mind boggles.
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)