“Since we came to the Government we have taken out the Public Employment Offer (OPE) of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and now we are immersed in those of 2022, 2023 and 2024, with more than 300 places convened by INGESA.”
The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, in an interview granted to COPE, highlighted the call for competitions of the National Institute of Health Management (INGESA), which includes a total of 316 places for permanent statutory staff distributed in 20 professional categories.
“During the mandate of the People’s Party, no offers of public employment for Health were made in more than 7 years, however, in four years we have offered a total of 919 fixed places,” he said. “We have come to this Government to improve the quality of all public services and Health is one of our fundamental pillars,” he said.
The head of the Spanish Government in our city has stressed the importance of data and of putting “tangible examples” so that citizens are aware of the state of health in Melilla. “It’s important to look back, to know where we come from, to know where we are and where we want to go,” he said.
Public Health Improvements
Moh stressed that, compared to 2014, “we have 45 more doctors in Specialized Care and 11 more in Primary Care, with 34% less health care pressure”. “Before the closure of the border, before the pandemic, Melilla registered about 3,000 births per year. Now we reach 700-800 approximately,” he said.
“We did not reach the government with the scissors of the cuts as the People’s Party did. We come with another mentality, with another project, with an improvement project,” he said. “We continue to work to improve all services and ensure the well-being of Melillense citizens, increasing resources and investment,” he said.
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”.
Talent acquisition
The head of the Government Delegation stressed that they are putting “all the effort in being able to attract talent” for the Health Area of Melilla. “We recently said that since January 17 new doctors have been hired in Primary and Specialized Care, to which we must add the recent incorporation of 2 oncologists,” he said.
In the words of Moh, “the University Hospital comes to increase the service portfolio and, therefore, new professionals have to be incorporated”. “Being a hospital of much larger dimensions, it will need a staff also according to the reality and needs that arise at this time. And that’s what we’re working on, too,” he said.
Thus, he has defended that its implementation can be a demand “for many professionals to want to carry their professional trajectory in this city”. However, he has warned that “continually speaking ill about health or working conditions in the city” is “a dangerous message”, because that “closes doors for many professionals to want to come”.