The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has announced that the works of the University Hospital are practically finished and that they are “finishing the final details”, while talking with Ciudad Autónoma about the administrative procedures for its implementation as soon as possible.
“A health infrastructure like this, with the needs of the people of Melilla, must be put in place as quickly as possible,” he said in an interview with COPE.
In this sense, he has reported that, “as with the educational centers, once the work is finished we must also have the relevant reports of occupation license by the Autonomous City, and determine that, in the end, the work is correct to be able to put it into operation and, now, we are in that phase.”
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in Melilla has recalled that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez promised to start the works before he served six months in the Government and this was done. “We have not delayed anything,” he said.
“The problem is that we have had 7 years of stoppage, that in the end the citizens have had to assume those 7 years of stoppage of the work by the Government of the Popular Party, but the Government led by Pedro Sánchez set it in motion and complied with his word,” he stressed.
“We have been for these five years without stopping at any time, despite the pandemic and the increase in the cost of the material,” said the Delegate, who thanked the coordinated work between different ministries.
2-year contracts
During the radio interview, the Government Delegate referred to the advances that have been made in the field of health in recent years in order to improve the sanitary quality of the city.
Thus, in infrastructure he has not only referred to the University Hospital but has recalled the works of the Emergency Service for Primary Care (SUAP), or the demolition of the old Goat Market to expand the Health Center of this area of Melilla.
But “work has also been done to expand and stabilize human resources,” he said. In fact, he has made it clear that “there are no fewer doctors than in 2018 and there is less pressure because the border factor has also influenced the health of Melilla”. Although in any case, he wanted to make it clear “we have been working and the objective is a health that is improving”.
In this regard, he referred to the stabilization of contracts, given that 200 health professionals, who had been on 3-month contracts, went on, since last April, to two-year contracts.
“We have stabilized hires because it is not the same to hire very short periods because you do not stabilize the staff,” he reasoned. “To a worker who offers a short contract, of a month or two, you generate uncertainty and does not choose to come to the Autonomous City of Melilla,” he said.
“We have given continuity, we have offered hiring for up to two years and therefore, all this has always been in favor of improving and getting those people rooted,” he said.