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The Popular Party has led to observation rooms and intermediate care are saturated with patients pending admission, waiting for a free bed, while the maternity and specialty facilities remain empty, closed to the floor, thus saving the hiring of staff necessary to cover summer casualties

The spokesman of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, Diego José Mateos has demanded Gil Jódar that once and for all be raised before their heads in Murcia and not continue to consent to the mistreatment of the Regional Government to Rafael Méndez de Lorca.

Mateos asks the mayor of Lorca to join his request and demand the "immediate" opening of the closed plants in Rafael Méndez, as well as a "special reinforcement, extraordinary" to alleviate the saturation of these days.

Mateos has returned to denounce the "distressing situation" of the Rafael Méndez general hospital due to the cuts in personnel hiring that the Popular Party continues to apply.

As reported by the PSOE a little over a month ago, the Popular Party, for saving the hiring of the necessary staff to cover holiday leave, what he did was close plant and a half, in particular, maternity in full and half of specialties, during the summer months.

Mateos has ensured that this closure "is causing saturation and overcrowding of patients both in the observation room and in the care room."

Mateos has shown that these cuts are generating an "authentic chaos", with delays for entry of between 24 and 48 hours, exceeding even the limits that are recorded in times as critical as may be the seasons of the flu.

As a result of these cuts, Mateos has assured that "many" are the "difficult testimonies" of the users who come to us, where they tell us "very serious situations", because "the waiting times of the patients are getting longer in order to be admitted due to the lack of beds, when there is a plant and a half, completely empty, closed to the floor and closed ".

In the absence of beds, there are patients with a diagnosis of hospitalization waiting in armchairs, waiting to be able to take a gap in observation and move from being in an armchair to a stretcher, and then moving to the plant depending on availability.

That is why today from the Socialist Party they have demanded the immediate opening of the plants that remain closed during the summer months and also, coupled with it, a special, extraordinary reinforcement of personnel in the face of the seriousness of the circumstances.

"Since the PP, with its nefarious policy of hiring personnel, is late to take over the hospital's activity during these months, what you have to do is hire a reinforcement of extraordinary staff to alleviate the saturation that is being recorded in the emergency room "

"Another argument often used by the Popular Party to try to make believe that it is normal to close these plants is that the activity is reduced during the summer, and we do not tire of remembering that not only the population does not fall during these months Summer "we must remember that this hospital is also the reference of the coastal municipality of Águilas, a municipality, which we all know that triples its population during this summer season."

Source: PSOE Lorca