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The municipal groups PSOE, Citizens Now Murcia and change at City Hall today expressed their "total opposition" to cut that runs the Autonomous Region in the services offered at the three centers of diurnal stays for elderly dependents in the municipality, located in Cabezo de Torres, Beniaján and Barriomar.

This is the first year that the agency is the exclusive competence of the Community, because until December 31, 2015 the City managed 20 percent of the seats and improved service quality.

The Community, through the Instituto Murciano Social Action (IMAS), has proposed an agreement that reduces the annual budget for these centers by 21.7% compared to 2015, going from 1,072,784 to 840,000 euros (232,784 euros), with an overall reduction of hours spent by professionals who care for users.

Thus, in the case of nurses they suffer a cut of 72.5 percent of their working day, going to have five and a half weekly hours of work to serve at least 30 users, which is the maximum capacity.

The cut also affects important way social workers, occupational therapy assistant geriatrics, psychologists and physiotherapists.

A cut that to four municipal opposition groups, will lead to the deterioration of the quality of so fundamental as is the care service for dependents.

In this situation, have accused the councilor of Social Rights Hall, Concepción Ruiz, failure to exercise pressure on the Autonomous Community, and the mayor, José Ballesta, to "give back again to the neediest groups as often habitual in him, "and they are pricing out the next municipal plenary an institutional statement demanding the regional government to maintain service quality.

The PSOE proposal, Citizens, Murcia and change now is because the Consistory, despite not having the powers in this area, financed suppressed hours for the centers operate under the same conditions as before.

To do this, they will study with the intervention of the City and service procurement as a new tender specifications.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia