With summer just around the corner and just a few days elapsed since the Minister of Health, Mónica García, met with the counselors at the Interterritorial Health Council held at the request of the majority of autonomous communities, the manager … of Primary Care, Begoña Ganuza, revealed yesterday what La Rioja’s plan will be for the holiday months. The region, far from the temporary adjustments that several surrounding communities are announcing, plans to keep all health centers in the regional network open in the morning and afternoon, that is, all services will continue the same as in winter unless unforeseen events arise. that force other types of decisions to be adopted at some specific time, “but at the moment everything is planned and covered for the entire summer,” he emphasizes.
The plan, which, according to Ganuza, has been developed combining the healthcare needs and the right to rest of professionals, will be sustained with the same staff and the usual reinforcements. In addition, fourth-grade resident doctors (MIR) who finish their training period next September have been asked to voluntarily and always supervised by an assistant to do some guard duty. The request has not yet received a response, although they hope to have “that asset when it comes to having something unforeseen, as long as there is an assistant and always voluntarily,” he insists.
Precisely the issue of the MIR was one of the most controversial in the meeting with the minister. It so happens that the covid pandemic caused the 2020 residents to start working in healthcare a little later than usual, and therefore now, that they are in the last year of residency, they will also finish months later, in specifically in September. This delay will mean that the communities will not be able to hire them as specialists to make up for professionals’ vacations as they used to.
In La Rioja attendance will also not change in the extraordinary activity modules in the afternoons with professionals over 55 years of age exempt from guards, all voluntary, and where there are more waiting lists.
“The conditions are better than those of many of the communities we have next door,” says Ganuza.
Aside from specific plans, the Primary Care manager understands that the Ministry has to undertake structural change. “We must insist, something has to be done, that they take the necessary structural measures because it is not a summer problem, it goes beyond the summer.”
Regarding the criticism of the unions, who maintain that the ball is not only in the court of the Ministry, but also in that of the Community that could improve the conditions of the doctors so that they do not go to other communities, Ganuza understands that the The fact that the summer is resolved without closures is enough of an answer. «The conditions are better than those of many of the communities we have next door. We have flexible hours, conciliation, maintenance and electric cars for those who move.
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