“With lies, they encourage health professionals to leave our lands.” With these words yesterday, the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez, accused the PSOE of “arouse fear and confusion” and thus “scare away” doctors from hospitals in Castilla y León. And, according to the head of the health portfolio in the plenary session of the Autonomous Cortes, the socialists are working to “distort” the report on medical demography recently presented by the Official Council of Colleges of Physicians in the region and “it confuses” reality “with its desire”.
A panorama that the Council and the main opposition group see very differently although they refer to the same data. Thus, the advisor recognized, as the socialist lawyer Diego Moreno argued in his question, that licensed doctors increased by 14 percent and also those who are “active,” but taking into account “public and private health care,” Vázquez said.
He considered, in this sense, that Castilla y León has “done its homework”, with a record in the call for MIR positions, the greatest offer of loyalty to residents who complete their training and the extension of active service. But it is the ministry which “plans the needs” and which “accredits training places”, he explained, before asking the department headed by Mónica García to assume its responsibilities.
However, the vision of the PSOE is that the problem of the shortage of doctors “comes from afar”, but that “the most worrying” is the “passivity” of the Council to face it and that they remain in “deploration” while waiting that the central government “is solving a problem that is actually theirs,” assured socialist lawyer Diego Moreno. The parliamentarian also demanded that he now put in place “incentives” for difficult-to-fill positions.
On the other hand, from the PSOE, Jesús Puente was interested in how the Council will carry out the announced “adaptation” of health personnel to the needs of the provinces and accused the Regional Executive of launching an “Aliste 2.0 plan ” by “amortizing” places in rural areas to transfer them to urban centers. In his response, the advisor only revealed that “all necessary measures will be taken” in this task and that he will carry out a “preliminary study”. In addition, he reminded the socialist of the volume of all health personnel and recalled the recent “macro-competition” which offered more than 11,000 vacancies.
During the face to face between the advisor and the lawyer of the Mixed Group Francisco Igea, both criticized the data on waiting lists. The former C asked Vázquez about his “achievements” in three years at the ministry, to which he replied: “Repairing the damage you left in the field of Health.”
