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The councilor for this training, Gloria Martín, regrets that the health cuts are reintroduced, during the summer, to the most defenseless population, such as the elderly, and particularly those living in small urban or rural centers.

Also warned of the closure in the afternoon of Lorca Sur (La Viña)

The Councilor for the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, today denounced the closure of health clinics in Tiata-Puente la Pía and La Campana during the summer period, the result of cuts that the Popular Party has been practicing in recent years In public health.

The mayor does not rule out the closure of other centers, an end that can not confirm due to the "shameful opacity" of the Sanitation Service Health Service Plan made public by the Health Ministry of the Autonomous Government where "no Information about it ".

"In all the centers of districts we have called have answered the same: they still do not know anything," explained Martin, which demonstrates the "lack of information and transparency of the PP."

Martín, has been able to verify the suppression of consultations in other peripheral centers, as well as the modification of the schedule of attention to patients.

This is the case, for example, of Lorca South, which will not open in the evenings.

Disadvantages for the users that will be extended until the month of September.

Regarding the Specialized Attention, the mayor of IU-Greens has also denounced the closure of one of the two plants of Internal Medicine of the hospital Rafael Mendez, which supposes the suppression of 40 beds, as well as the reduction of the surgical activity a 50 %.

For the mayor, this measure re-assaulted the most defenseless population, such as the elderly, and particularly those living in small urban or rural areas.

In that sense he said that it is "shameful" and "regrettable" that the working class is, once again, "the unjust victim" of the cuts in a health care system that costs with its taxes.

"The road map of this Government is the dismantling of public health and the rural environment, once again the most aggrieved and penalized," criticized Martin.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca