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Socialist Councillor Marisol Sanchez, complained today that nearly 50% of hospital beds featuring the Health Area 3, corresponding to a private school.
Therefore demanded that the Health Service of Murcia "refocus" its policy of semi-privatization of health and devote more resources to expand its public hospital.
Sanchez recalled that the Public Hospital Rafael Mendez has 283 hospital beds for a population of 300,000 persons residing in the towns of Lorca, Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras Totana and Aledo, comprising the area.
There are 175 more, but relating to the medical center "Virgen del Alcázar, a private clinic not beneficial.
The latter are intended for geriatric patients and long term, as reflected in the latest catalog of hospitals nationwide, which collects data on health resources to December 31, 2009.
According to Sánchez these data show that, indeed, users of the health area 3 have only one public bed for every 1,060 inhabitants, which, as recommended by the World Health Organization's "Third" assured the mayor .
In fact, WHO recommends 8 to 10 beds per thousand inhabitants.
The socialist councilor said that even taking into account the private hospital beds has taken place, the ratio for Area 3 of health would be one bed per 655 inhabitants.
However, Sanchez noted that this agreed deadline is allowed only for the chronically ill and elderly and not for other users so "should not be included in the overall because they are not available to any user of SMS."
Source: PSOE Lorca
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