The municipal group Podemos in the Murcia City Council denounces the lack of social sensitivity exhibited by the autonomous government and the lukewarmness of the municipal government team to fight for the rights of the residents of the districts of Murcia, this time with cuts in health, one of essential services for citizenship."Last February we already denounced the absence of the Pediatrics service in Patiño since July 2019, and this summer the approximately 13,000 inhabitants of this district of Murcia are left without primary care, which translates into discriminatory measures that expose once again the lack of planning by the autonomous government, in the face of the passivity of the municipal government, "said municipal spokesman Ginés Ruiz.From the municipal group Podemos demand the reopening of health centers and medical offices immediately and warn that "the City Council has the responsibility and commitment to ensure the well-being of all the neighbors, especially with a health crisis of such characteristics, we can understand that in this situation some service has to be restructured promptly, but it is not acceptable that it is always the same neighbors who see their rights diminished.
""This situation is an autonomous competition, but it is the obligation of the Murcia City Council to protect the Health Services and to protect the residents, also those from the districts of the municipality of Murcia," said mayor Clara Martínez Baeza."We demand more than ever the strengthening of public health, the only way to respond to health crises like the one we are experiencing.
We cannot forget the older people who live in Patiño and the difficulty of moving abroad for this population of the district to be taken care of in a municipality whose public transport is an evident failure ".For all this, "we demand the immediate opening of the Patiño primary care center and that the residents of Murcia, living in the area of ??the municipality that live and be the station of the municipality, be cared for in equal conditions and with the same quality.
year that is ", has insisted the councilor of the purple formation.
Source: Podemos Murcia