The Ministry of Health will meet with the Autonomous Communities next Monday, the 8th, to address the adoption of Public Health measures in relation to the incidence of flu during this campaign, according to the Health Minister of the Community of Madrid. , Fatima Matute.
In statements to esRadio collected by Europa Press, the counselor explained that this afternoon she received a call from the Ministry for this conclave, which will have as items on the agenda the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting and coordinating security measures. Public health to deal with the flu epidemic.
In this sense, he has criticized the Ministry’s lack of planning, which should have acted sooner and not waited until January 8, “at the height of the epidemic peak.” “This should have been foreseen long before, as many autonomous communities have done, and specifically Madrid, which has the Winter Plan since November of this year and we have been working on it since before,” he lamented.
In this sense, he has called for citizen tranquility because, he has indicated, the councilors have already “let’s do it“. “Flu and Health do not understand vacations and we have been where we have to be, working alongside health professionals and coordinating this flu plan to try to alleviate this increase in attendance, as we are doing in Madrid, and avoid that scheduled admissions or scheduled surgeries have to be suspended as we are achieving until now,” he explained.
On this point, he has criticized the fact that the Minister of Health, Mónica García, has waited so long and has criticized that there has been no news from her since the past. December 21. “One of the only acts he has done was to write a tweet at 3 p.m. several days ago saying the importance of using masks and reinforcing the health workforce,” he criticized.
In this framework, she stressed that “all” the councilors are clear, and this is what she also “has to work on as a minister”, the need to increase the workforce of professionals who have been in a deficit state for a very long time. “From the Community of Madrid, in the winter plan, we have authorized the hiring of 1,800 professionals, doctors, nurses, assistants, guardsjust as we have opened 1,100 more beds than the previous year to alleviate this, as well as other prevention measures, which is what I suppose you want to tell us on the 8th,” Matute indicated.
On this point, he has ironically indicated that “rather it will be the Autonomous Communities” those who will have to tell Mónica García at Monday’s appointment what they have done or what they have been working on since November to face this peak that occurs every year and to “make the work of health professionals easier.”
“It will be to see how the flu epidemic is declining and we are recovering to our state of normality. These Public Health measures should have been taken in November or before, like us, with vaccination and with different messages in the media or in health centers, making the population aware that this could come and had to be vaccinated and, of course, had to have safety measures. virus containment before any symptom to avoid infecting the population,” he insisted.
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The counselor has also referred to the development of the future ALS Law on which the Government of Pedro Sánchez is working to ironically say that the head of Health “plagiarism” initiatives of the Community of Madrid, “the first administration that has been clear about it and is working for and for ALS patients, as well as with any other vulnerable evaluation group due to this paralysis of the ALS law”.
In this sense, he recalled that the first residence in Spain for ALS patients will be in the Community of Madrid and will open its doors expectedly in the first quarter of 2024. “It’s funny to me that these initiatives, which I think are quite good, are plagiarized by the minister. because recently in a tweet he announced that it was going to be the first ALS residences in Asturias and Extremadura. I think you should not read that in Madrid we have been announcing it for a year. But hey, if it is for the good of ALS patients, we are satisfied,” he indicated.