Manuela García considers the amounts insufficient and emphasizes the need to reach an agreement with the Statute Marco
The Balearic Islands will receive 3.8 million euros to reinforce Primary Care, mental health, suicide prevention, and digital health out of the total amount of 229 million approved on Wednesday by the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS).
Sources from the Ministry of Health have detailed that they have been granted 2.29 million euros for Primary Care –of which 50% is subject to the fulfillment of objectives–, 1.47 million for mental health programs and suicide prevention, and 89,548 euros for digital health.
The Minister of Health, Manuela García, has considered these funds «absolutely insufficient and scarce.» In Primary Care, they amount to 3.5 euros per inhabitant in the Balearic Islands and in mental health, 1.2 euros, she has cited as examples.
They are also «tiny» amounts compared to the commitment that the Government has made in mental health, with 80 million euros, or digital health, with 100 million.
Nationally, as reported by the Minister of Health, Mónica García, 172.4 million euros will be allocated to the development of the Primary and Community Care Plan 2025-2027; 39 million for the Mental Health Action Plan 2025-2027, and 17.8 million for the Suicide Prevention Plan 2025-2027.
«Three plans that are united by the same purpose, which is to strengthen and expand our public healthcare where it is most needed,» highlighted the minister in a press conference following the CISNS.
In the Primary Care Plan, she detailed, 50% of the credit is distributed based on population criteria, and the remaining 50% is conditioned on the fulfillment of certain commitments such as the publication of job offers for primary care, measures to cover hard-to-fill positions, appointment of specialist nurses, and guarantee of stability of accredited teaching units.
STATUTE MARCO The minister has pointed out that the autonomous communities have agreed with the Ministry that some of the demands made by the unions regarding the Statute Marco «are not legitimate.»
«All mobilizations are legitimate, but some demands are not,» she said, giving examples such as preventing nurses from updating their skills based on their training or including in the demands issues that are not within the competence of Health, such as retirement matters.
The Minister of Health, on the other hand, has considered that in the meeting they have again «not talked about what truly matters.» «We have raised the situation of the Statute Marco, asking for information on how the negotiations are going. We have just experienced a strike due to causes that arise in the Ministry and not in the autonomous communities, and another one is planned for October,» she explained.
«We have the feeling that work needs to be done, we have insisted that work needs to be done, reaching agreements is very important in the Statute Marco,» she insisted.
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