SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Plenary Session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands unanimously approved this Wednesday a Proposal Not of the Law (PNL) of the Socialist Group, amended by ASG and the Mixed Group, in which the increase in the ‘clause numbers’ in the two faculties of island medicine to increase the number of students.
It also proposes creating a registry of SCS faculty to adjust the training offer to the real needs of MIR places, regulate the single registry of the two public universities and review the reservation quotas.
Teresa Cruz (PSOE) has commented that the current offer, of 265 places in the archipelago – there are 15 unfilled -, does not cover the demand to the point that foreign doctors have to be hired and there are many Canarian students studying at universities European.
Thus, he has claimed that it is a “political decision” to choose to “produce” doctors or “export them”, putting on the table that Murcia and Navarra, for example, have twice as many places as the Canary Islands with much less population.
In fact, between 2001 and 2011, more non-EU degrees were validated (50,205) than doctors who graduated from the
Spanish faculties (46,194).
Vidina Espino (Mixed Group) has highlighted that the PLN has come to recognize the lack of places to study Medicine in the Canary Islands –the same thing happens in Nursing– and the lack of flexibility of the Ministry of Education to increase the places.
Melodie Mendoza (ASG) has said that this process must be carried out hand in hand with the universities, giving more material and human resources to the centers and adjusting the offer to the demand for MIR places, while also calling for an increase of places in the Nursing Degree.
María del Río (Yes We Can) has commented that an “in-depth approach” is needed at the state level and has expressed concern about the time spent on training so that doctors “go abroad” to work and then hire labor abroad. “It is a round business”, she has ironized her.
Luis Campos, spokesman for NC, has said that the training model for doctors in Spain “is a proven success” that guarantees the specialization of the public service and believes that “the key” is in the ‘clause numbers’ as it is “insufficient “.
THE PP DEMANDS A “RIGOROUS AND CROSS-CUTTING” DEBATE
Miguel Ángel Ponce (PP) has said that the ‘clause numbers’ are an “important problem” in Medicine and has warned that if the MIR positions are not matched with the undergraduate ones, as his group has proposed, and the teaching staff increases, there will be a large “bag” of applicants. “A rigorous and transversal debate is needed,” he commented.
José Alberto Díaz-Estébanez (CC-PNC) has said that the proposal is “surprising” because the government groups are aware of this “problem” more than three years after the beginning of the Legislature and they do so with a PNL “so well-intentioned and inconsequential”.
He has commented that the solution provided by the Socialists is “simple” because the “bleeding” of lack of professionals is not resolved by increasing the number of places.
“We must find solutions in the short and medium term”, he pointed out, such as the improvement of working conditions, more salary and specific OPE to set the templates.
