The truth is that scientific groups say patients should be seen within the first 48 hours. In Orihuela, it takes a long time for someone to be seen at their health centre or auxiliary centre after making an appointment with Primary Care, unless there’s an emergency.
The Ministry of Health says that the average wait time at the Orihuela I health centre is 5.58 days. The 8.84 days at the Rincón de Bonanza auxiliary centre and the 6.45 days at the San Bartolomé centre are the most important of the clinics it oversees.
The average number of days at Álvarez de la Riva is 3.47. At the Correntías clinic, it goes up to 4.84 days, while at the Desamparados clinic, it goes up to 4.32 days.
Cambiemos says these numbers are “worrying” because there aren’t enough personnel in the city and other areas to cover medical staff sick leave and vacations. This means that patients have to be temporarily sent to other professionals, which means they have to care for more patients.
In 2024, the Orihuela area was declared a zone with difficult healthcare coverage. This is shown in Decree Law 2/2024 from the Consell, which talks about extraordinary measures to ensure comprehensive healthcare and equal conditions in the Valencian Health System. One of these measures is raising the salaries of healthcare workers.
But Cambiemos says that the regional ministry is not offering an increase in this area of health. They have put forth a proposal to the plenary session this Thursday to strengthen the medical staff and ensure that health centres can provide care.
Leticia Pertegal, the party’s spokesman, said, “We can’t keep letting public healthcare fall apart.” We need professionals who can take sick leave and vacation time and get the legal wage bonuses that they are not getting because Minister Marciano Gómez won’t pay them.
Pertegal also said that “this is a clear example of the PP’s policies, in which they see healthcare as a business, but it is an essential good and one of the basic parts of the welfare state.” The party demands “what is due to us in healthcare matters,” because “we cannot have overburdened medical professionals, because if they are the ones in charge of caring for us, the first thing we must do is take care of them,” the councillor said.
Other motions
The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) has filed another motion to improve and make the breast cancer prevention and early detection program in the Valencian Community more open. Ciudadanos (Citizens) is bringing an initiative to the plenary session to ask for better coordination between regional emergency services after the death of Antonio Morales, a 73-year-old retired firefighter who was in an accident while cycling along the Reino (or Rollo) path that separates the two communities in early September. This was a tragic event for this resident of the Murcian town of Puente Tocinos.
The Socialist municipal group will also ask the City Council to make the Generalitat Valenciana put out bids for the construction of the Oriol residential module in the old nursing home.
Cambiemos will then ask for the Los Dolses Primary School to be expanded and a new school to be built in Orihuela Costa.
The Orange party, on the other hand, will also work to make sure that the local administration works better with the Orihuela Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Author: Derek Appleton
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