Juan Lobato has called on the regional government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to present “urgently” a “credible” multi-year investment plan for public health in Madrid, which has to “stop being in the queue for investment in the health of its citizens ” in comparison with other autonomies.
This plan would have to increase in a “significant” way the resources in primary care and the improvement of the remuneration of the staff of the Madrid Health Service (Sermas), because “being at the tail of investment in Spain per inhabitant, in primary care and in remuneration of its health personnel is an erroneous decision for the present and for the future”, according to the leader of the PSOE-M this Tuesday.
Lobato’s words come after the recent report by Comisiones Obreras which, according to May data, shows that there are 898,654 people on the waiting list for surgery, diagnostic tests and specialized outpatient consultations. While the Unified Registry of the Surgical Waiting List of the Community of Madrid records, with data from last May, 86,151 patients waiting for surgery.
In this sense, the Socialist considers that, after the “mess” and “antics” of the electoral campaigns of 28M and 23J, it is “time to stop” and “really reflect” on Madrid’s healthcare.
“It cannot be that a region like Madrid, with the economic power it has, is with these figures in the basic public service, which is health,” says Lobato in an audio sent to the press, for whom it is time to “take very seriously stop being the last in Spain in investment and be able to make a real leap in health services”.
Lobato emphasizes prevention and health promotion, “which is the key to quality of life and the future financial sustainability of the health system.”
The PSOE-M also argues that if Madrid is the region with the highest gross domestic product per capita in Spain “it has to stop being at the bottom of the investment in health of its citizens”, and that a system that “has the The best hospitals and professionals have to invest in accordance with the obligation to aspire to have the best public healthcare in Spain and Europe”.
“A strong and well-endowed public healthcare system is a strategic element for international investment decisions in the Community of Madrid. Aspiring to be a leading region in Europe requires public health of the highest level of quality and access ”, the PSOE of Madrid abounds.
