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A second emergency service (SUAP), the construction of the new Health Center in the Neighborhood, more health personnel or the installation of the equipment donated by the Amancio Ortega Foundation, such as the MRI service in Rafael Méndez, have been topics discussed at the meeting.
The Councilor for Health of the City of Lorca, José Ángel Ponce, meets with the manager of the Murcia Health Service, Asensio López, to convey the health claims of the municipality of Lorca.
Ponce explained that "among the issues discussed, the need to continue improving primary care in the different health centers, both in the city and in districts, stands out, understanding that it is the main link that should continue to be reinforced as a measure to decongest the health services. emergencies, both from SUAP Sutullena and Rafael Méndez University General Hospital ".
The mayor has demanded "measures to decongest the Emergency Service of Primary Care (SUAP) of Sutullena, the most saturated in the Region of Murcia, and for this, both responsible have agreed on the need for the municipality of Lorca, by population and territory, it has a second emergency service of primary care since the current one, the SUAP of Lorca, as revealed by a Health report, is the one that has carried more care in the Region in the last year with 40,397 assistances. "
Ponce Díaz, in this sense, has conveyed "the need for CARM to address the construction of the necessary health center in the neighborhood of the neighborhood as soon as possible, an issue that for the City of Lorca is 'irrevocable' and should include that service of fundamental urgency for the Lorca population ".
The Councilor for Health has insisted on the need to "speed up the installation of the TAC and the MRI unit donated by the Amancio Ortega Foundation to the Rafael Méndez Hospital and which they have available since June 2017. A fundamental method to reduce the waiting time they are registered in the whole of Area III for the realization of diagnostic tests ".
Ponce has also transmitted "the concern about the waiting times that are registered to access first consultations with a specialist, a particularly delicate situation in specialties such as dermatology, traumatology, rehabilitation, urology or gynecology."
"The obligation to face the lack of necessary personnel to face the waiting in specialties, as well as to avoid the closing of medical offices in districts during the summer and to continue offering a basic service in areas where at that time of the year is increased considerably the number of inhabitants and where, in addition, there is a large number of elderly people with difficulties to move to the health centers of the center, "has been another issue discussed at the meeting held in Murcia.
José Ángel Ponce has thanked "the good weather and the understanding to meet the needs of the citizens of Lorca in order to continue improving the health care of the municipality" as well as "the care received and the collaborative attitude and coordination for meet the demands of the population of Lorca in order to improve health care in the whole of Area III ".
The mayor of Health has stressed that "it is the commitment of the mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, to work tirelessly to get historical claims from our citizens such as the improvement of primary health care, the construction of the Center for Health of the San Cristóbal neighborhood, the start-up of the equipment donated by the Amancio Ortega Foundation or the arrival at the reference hospital of Area III of Health, the Rafael Méndez Hospital, which daily residents of Lorca, Águilas, attend Puerto Lumbreras, Totana and Aledo have the same right and the same quality of care as citizens of the rest of health areas of the Region of Murcia. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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