“When the PP was governing at the local level and at the state level it only worked to dismantle the Health: There was no increase in doctors and we had precarious hiring. When a professional is hired for two or three days or two weeks, we do not give stability to the staff that provides service and that is detrimental to the health quality of Melilla.”
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, in an interview granted this noon in the COPE chain, has referred to the improvement that the Melillense Health Service has experienced during these almost 6 years, since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to La Moncloa.
“Of course there is a way to go, of course we must continue working on improving healthcare, but we must also value the effort that is made when services are improved,” he said.
Thus, the head of the Government Delegation recalled that the Executive presiding over Pedro Sánchez has stabilized 240 jobs and that 200 recruitments have gone from having contracts of two or three days to long-term contracts of between two and three years. “That gives stability, more rights to the workers, and also a rooting in the city, because even if it is personal of the city itself, when you have contracts as unstable as those that existed with the PP government, in the end you end up leaving and it is not that not only do we not attract talents but ours also goes,” he argued.
Medical Union
Asked about the criticisms made by the Medical Union, the highest representative of the Government of Spain, she stressed that, just as the demands must be put on the table, the work that has been done to improve the health quality of the city must also be valued.
Thus, the Delegate recalled that the historical request that existed on the passage of ambulances from Morocco to our hospital, “this Government Delegation gave an answer to those requests.” He also recalled that, after 7 years of paralysis of the works of the University Hospital by the Executive of the PP, the Government of Pedro Sánchez, as promised, resumed these works in less than 6 months, or the improvements that have been undertaken in the Health Center of Cabrerizo, the Primary Care Emergency Service (SUAP), the expansion of the portfolio of services, the improvement of the working conditions of health professionals…
“The effort and work that has been done to gradually improve health quality in the city of Melilla has never been valued,” he said, in the same way that, despite the fact that Health was in a much more precarious situation with the Executive of Rajoy “they were never as incisive as they are now.”
“I think it is important that we continue to claim, I am the first to claim to continue improving, attracting doctors, increasing the portfolio of services, having better facilities… but also, at some point, they will have to value all the work that has been done,” he said.
In this sense, Moh has pointed out that when this type of criticism is made “they generate a feeling of insecurity that does not harm the Delegation but damages the citizens and the city”, so he has pointed out that, “at some point they will also have to add value that this Government has done much more than the previous Government for Health”.