Starting this Monday, the Ministry of Health will launch a campaign to make visible the new Primary Care services in the Community, such as free dental benefits for people over 80 years of age or prescription glasses for children under 14.
Under the motto ‘Your Primary Care comes first’, information about the new services of this first level of care will be disseminated until next November 30 in the media, public transport such as Metro and Cercanías and Pharmacy offices, as well as networks social networks like YouTube and Instagram.
The campaign revolves around three axes: proximity to citizens, accessibility to access professionals and resolution capacity, ensuring that 90% of queries are resolved on the device itself. Every day 340,000 people visit the more than 430 health centers and local public clinics in the region.
Among the messages that will be disseminated, the regional Executive’s financing of dental treatments for people over 80 years of age for the placement of prostheses and caries repairs, and more complex treatments for children between 7 and 14 years of age, stands out. It will also be remembered that starting this summer children up to 14 years old have free prescription glasses.
The campaign also focuses on the advantages offered by the Virtual Health Card or the Primary Care website itself when making an appointment for a consultation or finding out about health information in general.
Likewise, it contemplates the work of health workers both within the devices of this first level of care and at home, as well as that of the 23 Residential Care Units (UAR), the seven Home Palliative Care Support teams (ESAPD). and the Telephone Service Center.
Also remember that each user of the first level of care of Madrid’s public health system is assigned a dentist, physiotherapist, social worker, and, in the case of women, a midwife. This last professional category has, in addition to pregnancy and postpartum care, a fundamental role in sexual and reproductive health, performing cytology tests and monitoring menopause.
Emphasis is also placed on the continuous provision of technological resources, such as ultrasound machines to diagnose muscular, cardiological or respiratory ailments, retinography or spirometry to measure lung capacity.
