SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for health matters for the Popular Group in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Miguel Ángel Ponce, considers that the saturation of Primary Care is “unsustainable”, for which reason he will urge the Minister of Health to seek solutions in order to improve the care that patients receive.
For this reason, Miguel Ángel Ponce will ask the person in charge of the area about the actions planned by his department to reduce the excessive delay in obtaining an appointment in Primary Care, “since a canary takes an average of 10 days to be treated in a health center, which places us as the third community with the highest average delay,” he explained.
According to the people’s deputy, “the saturation suffered by Primary Care during the different waves of the coronavirus pandemic seems to have become chronic and Canarian family doctors continue to endure intolerable healthcare pressure, with work overloads that make the work of primary care doctors difficult. family and, therefore, has an impact on the care that patients receive”.
In this sense, Miguel Ángel Ponce assured that despite having “more resources than ever, the situation has not improved, so it is more than evident that there is a management problem.” “The plan to strengthen Primary Care that the Government has been selling us is not solving the problems and if measures are not taken it will end up being another failure like the Plan Aborda, destined to end the waiting lists,” he added.
For the popular deputy, “we are facing a serious problem because if the entrance door to Health does not work correctly, the system as a whole collapses as it is currently happening, because in the end the patients end up overusing the Emergencies, which It is one of the reasons why the collapse in this service has also ceased to be exceptional to become a constant”.
For all these reasons, Ponce continues to insist on the need to “rescue” Health in the Canary Islands and will once again offer some of the 64 measures that the Popular Party has put on the table to improve it, “and that this Government has ignored out of pure sectarianism political”.
“We will continue to demand a great pact for Canary Islands health, more necessary than ever, with the aim of recovering and updating our health model and its management,” stressed the popular deputy, who concluded by stating that “our health is deteriorated and has not adapted and updated to chronicity and socio-sanitary problems, so it requires far-reaching changes if we really want the canaries to have the attention they deserve”.
