“That’s totally false.” The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, to questions from the media, referred to the statements made in the parliamentary seat by the Deputy Secretary of Health of the PP in the Congress, Carmen Funez, in which she said that no cancer screening has been carried out in Melilla in the last three years.
The head of the Government Delegation regretted that the popular deputy “with the very serious situation of screenings in Andalusia, dares to recriminate the Minister for a matter that is not real”. In fact, he has called these statements “of little responsibility, of little empathy, of little sensitivity and of little ethics.”
Moh, who recalled that the local government has the competence, through Public Health, has stressed that “what you have to do is get angry less and work more”.
Totally false statement
But, in addition, he has made it clear that “it is totally false that in three years no screening has been done” and he has pointed out that precisely yesterday the Government Delegation hosted a meeting with the Spanish Association against Cancer (AECC) of Melilla and the Ingesa team, in which the entity “congratulated the work that is done in the screening of breast or cervix cancer”.
He also explained that at that meeting, everything that has to do with colon cancer screenings was analyzed, where, in fact, it is the Autonomous City of Melilla, -within the agreement that it has signed with Ingesa-, the person in charge of information and patient recruitment, and that “they are not doing it as they should.”
“Public Health has competence and an agreement is signed”, he insisted, while pointing out the importance of the local government “investing more resources in continuing to inform the citizens so that we can make those necessary screenings”.
Moh has detailed that “the competition is from the Autonomous City and there is an agreement, therefore, right now it is the Autonomous City that is responsible for making all the type of notifications, the sending of information… and the Ingesa is the one that puts the material and human means to be able to do this type of screening, but with the information that comes from the Autonomous City”.
“If this preliminary phase is not done, we can hardly materialize these screenings,” he stressed, stressing the need for “the Melillense citizens to receive letters informing them of what they have to do, when they have to do it, where they should go, so that the Ingesa can then put in place the necessary mechanisms to do this type of screenings.”