“More Region-Greens Equo demands increased funding for primary healthcare in Murcia”

The head of the list of More Region-Greens Equo to the regional Assembly, Helena Vidal, has branded as “clearly insufficient” the Community budgets allocated to health and he has insisted that “the first thing to do is increase the amount of money that we allocate to primary care.”

In a statement, Vidal has indicated that For the “adequate” operation of health centers, “an investment of 38 million euros is necessary to hire nurses, family doctors, administrative assistants and social workers”.

To this, it has added the reinforcement of primary care support units with physiotherapists, midwives, nursing assistants and dentistsand add psychologists “to all health centers.”

For her part, Adolfina Hervás, number two at Murcia City Hall by the coalition, has stressed that the health system “has to leave behind everything that is not a face-to-face appointment”. “Our elders are not there to be seen on the phone and much less on the Internet, he has commented on it.

“It is the responsibility of the health workers to leave the consultations to care for people who cannot go to the center for specific reasons and to work on health education in schools, as well as to give voice to the participation of the population in all issues related to their health”, added Hervás.