Melilla now has 45 more professionals in specialized care and 11 more professionals in primary care and with 34% less care pressure than ten years ago.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has revealed these data while informing that there are 100 million euros that have been allocated for public health in Ceuta and Melilla in this last year, of which more than half are allocated for human resources.
“During this time we have been working to improve the quality of care, with more professionals, more investment and we have less care pressure,” he said. Therefore, he has recognized that “it is not understood when it is said that Health is going to get worse, because if there are more human resources, more money and less pressure, we believe that we are working on the path of what needs to be worked, of improving everything that can be improved.”
Two new oncologists
Asked about the statements of the local president, Juan José Imbroda, on whether or not the two new oncologists count the training of Resident Internal Physician (MIR), the head of the Government Delegation recalled that MIR training is a system in Spain and that in other countries it has another denomination.
“The president of the Autonomous City knows perfectly well that the MIR is a degree given in Spain and that when doctors come from other territories, it will not be called MIR, but for that is the homologation of the degree and all professionals who provide service throughout the national territory have the current legality to be able to provide service,” he explained.
For this reason, he regretted that Imbroda tried to “call into question the professionalism of two such oncologists, who from yesterday began to serve in Melilla”.
Moh has thanked these two people who have been part of the Ingesa workforce since yesterday, who have moved to the city, and who have come to improve the assistance service in our city, while advancing that work is being done to incorporate new professionals.
3,000 to 900 births per year
Continuing with the health issue, the Delegate was asked about the intervention of the Medical Colleges of Ceuta and Melilla in the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions (PETI) to address the health of both cities.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain has pointed out that, given that the president of the College of Doctors of our city provides service in the local Health, “I think you will know firsthand that the assistance pressure has decreased”.
Thus, he recalled that before the pandemic there were about 3,000 deliveries per year that took place in our city while now they do not even reach 900 deliveries per year.
In any case, he insisted on the Government of Spain “it is clear that public health is one of the fundamental pillars on which we are going to continue working and on which we are going to continue investing in order to improve human resources and adapt them to the real needs of Melilla”.
Sabrina Moh stressed that “we are not going to deviate from the truly important attention to the Melillense citizens and, therefore, in that line we will continue working”.
Delving into this issue, he pointed out that the new University Hospital is an infrastructure with dimensions seven times larger than the Regional Hospital and that the population that is served is the same and the portfolio of services is going to be increased, “therefore, there is going to be a significant improvement.”