The Minister of Health, Mónica García, has not only abandoned the only two health systems she manages in Spain, such as Ceuta and Melilla, but now the government of the latter autonomous city has announced that it will no longer wait Health and will implement the march “directly» the pharmaceutical co-payment for helping retirees with fewer resources thanks to an item of 300,000 euros planned in the city’s general budgets for the year 2025.
The president of Melilla, Juan Jose Imbrodaregretted that “We went to the Institute of Health Management (Ingesa)“But he didn’t want to and he turned his back on us”, which is why a procedure with a sworn declaration will be authorized to grant aid to these families.
Imbroda said many retirees “They can’t even afford certain medications.» so he reserved 300,000 euros in the 2025 budgets and “we forgot Ingesa”.
For his part, the Minister of Development, Miguel Marín, publicly defended the technicians of the Autonomous City and asked the government delegate, Sabrina Moh, to ask him for “forgiveness” for his “infamies” linked to the University Hospital , after accusing the management of Melilla of delaying its opening.
Miguel Marín assured that it will take “less than a minute” to sign the first occupancy permit for the university hospital, once Ingesa has sent the requested documentation and it has been verified by the technicians.
Finally, he communicated that as part of the social measures that will be applied in next year’s budgets, “from September 2025, families in Melilla will no longer pay a single euro to take their children to nursery school “.
Disastrous management
On the other hand, Imbroda claimed responsibility for the management of the National Institute of Health Management (INGESA) in Melilla to the regional government because, as he denounced, it is “disastrous”. Among his complaints, he said the autonomous city does not have a stroke unit.. “That we have to take a plane so that the patient can be transferred, so that he can be treated anywhere on the peninsula, as important as the first moments are for this, this cannot be allowed in the 21st centurynot even in Europe,” he denounced.
Thus, he judged that it was necessary “spend money because it doesn’t work», claiming that there is a new hospital which is not open and that the pediatric and gynecology departments are “very narrow”.
On the other hand, Imbroda reported that the regional government finances the public expenditure of universities “so that qualifications and diplomas are issued in Melilla that would not be issued if this were not done”, and explained that seven million euros are invested in new diplomas “without having the competence or responsibility of the public university“.
Imbroda said he wanted to talk about a financing system “bilateral and collective» within the Conference of Presidents and the Sector Financing Council. “You can’t pull the blanket from either side“, he expressed. He also proposed to conclude an agreement between the autonomous city and the central administration: “The budget would be signed for four years and we would solve our problems.”
