It is not a new request nor a new refusal. Once again, the PP-A, with an absolute majority in the regional Parliament, has today once again rejected the holding of a monographic plenary session on the state of Andalusian public health, a request made by all the opposition parties to account, on this occasion, of the latest resignations in the Ministry of Health.
This new 'no' joins the dozen registered in recent months for the same matter, although it has been announced that it will be in February when the counselor of the branch, Catalina García, will appear to provide the data she considers necessary. “There is no” extraordinary situation that justifies this extraordinary plenary session, explained the spokesperson for the Andalusian Popular Party, Toni Martín, who has considered that the demand of PSOE-A, Por Andalucía and the Mixo-Adelante group, has a “smell of electoralist.” "If this situation (collapse in health and emergency centers and the increase in waiting lists) does not deserve an extraordinary debate, what is Parliament for?" responded Manuel Gavira, spokesperson for Vox.
The rise in cases of patients suffering from respiratory viruses is putting pressure on the Andalusian health system, already burdened by a long waiting list, and is once again bringing the health management exercised by the PP to the fore. Once again, health becomes a weapon thrown between parties, however, on this occasion the opposition, both the left and the extreme right, has united in an extraordinary way to demand explanations from the Government about the “ disastrous and painful” health management “aggravated”, as explained by the various party spokespersons, with the recent resignations of two senior Health officials.
On the other hand, they reiterate again that this 'modus operandi' of the Executive is nothing more than a strategy to continue injecting public money into private healthcare, they point out, an argument with which they intend to "erode" Moreno's management although "without success”, in Martín's opinion.
"Healthcare has problems that we recognize and are solving," commented the popular spokesperson, "the money that the coke driver put up his nose is invested by Moreno in health and in the ERE to hire more professionals," he denounced. , since he has pointed out that Counselor García “lives in Parliament” and has already appeared for about 14 hours in the Chamber for different requests, however, in his opinion, now “there is no” extraordinary situation that justifies this monograph The opposition, especially the PSOE-A, now wants to draw an "apocalyptic" situation when it was their governments that "destroyed" public health, he stressed.
The socialists took little time to respond to the popular ones. It was Ángeles Férriz, spokesperson for the PSOE-A, who stated that the Moreno Government is putting Andalusians through an “ordeal” for its “disastrous” management, which is nothing more than “a premeditated plan” to “favor” with more resources for private healthcare. "You are not going to public health," he criticized, "you have destroyed it, it cannot stand even a period of high flu frequency due to the collapse generated by the organizational disaster. You put people's lives in danger and want to cover up the situation in an exercise of cynicism and hypocrisy for which President Moreno is responsible, who has the counselor shielded," he denounced.
The spokesperson has also accused the PP of having "kidnapped" Parliament with its absolute majority, a decision in which the President of the Chamber, Jesús Aguirre, has also participated.
Regarding the intention to allocate public funds for health to private entities, Inmaculada Nieto, spokesperson for Por Andalucía, has also stressed that the popular Government has made five years of "wrong" health decisions on which it continues to insist due to "dogmatic stubbornness." "and that involves the "increasing" diversion of public resources to private healthcare that "does not solve" the "serious" problems that it "has generated" in public healthcare. In his opinion, the "troubles (due to resignations) in Health" are attributable to the "bad conduct" of the counselor and her "absence of talent", to which he has added that the public system, despite what it "sells" Moreno, lacks the resources that go to the private sector.
What is the counselor hiding and why is the Moreno Government hiding her?” José Ignacio García, from Adelante Andalucía, asked, given that Manuel Gavira, from Vox, also criticized the attitude of the PP-A. “If this situation (collapse in health centers and emergencies or the increase in waiting lists) does not deserve an extraordinary debate, what is Parliament for?” he explained.
Other controversies that have arisen this week, in which Andalusia has been in the eye of the hurricane, have had their origin in the decision of the central government to establish the mandatory use of masks in health centers and hospitals throughout the Spanish territory. given the rates of infections due to respiratory viruses. After several days resisting the idea of “imposing” the use of face masks on the population again, Moreno's Executive has finally admitted that it will “abide” by the ruling of the Ministry of Health.
This was confirmed by the Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs, Catalina García, who has insisted that the State has made this decision in a "completely unilateral manner", and added that they will study whether it "has intentionally skipped legality." of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (Cisns)".
“What communities, professionals and citizens need is certainty" and "what we asked the minister was, precisely, alert levels with indicators and actions within those levels, so that each community, at all times, "we would know what to do, go from mandatory to recommendation, but with those technical criteria," he explained, something that has not happened. "This path is not going to make us work together for the objective of improving the conditions, structure and health of all Spaniards," he insisted in an audio sent to the media.
