The non-affiliated councilor of the Ibiza Council, martha diazwhich until the beginning of the legislature was part of the socialist group, cries out against the critical situation of public health in Ibiza and censures that the Minister of Health of the Balearic Government, Patricia Gomezstated on a recent visit to the island that the “Health Area of Ibiza and Formentera is tremendously attractive to come to work”when the reality is that there is a great shortage of specialist.
Díaz has lamented in a plenary session of the insular institution that the voice of Ibiza does not matter and that Gómez “does not know the reality of the island, nor of health care and it seems that here we are citizens of a lower category”. In this sense, she has defined the attitude of the head of Health in the Balearic Islands as an act of “cynicism”.
The non-attached councilor has reviewed numerous press articles denouncing the precarious health situation on the island of Pitiusa, with special attention to the Lack of oncologists in Can Misses. This public hospital has only one oncologist out of the five it should havewhich is why it has had to increase the number of visits by specialists who travel from Son Espases.
For this reason, he does not understand the statements made by the Minister of Health when the Medical Union or the Patient Advocate They have been warning about the lack of specialists in public health in Ibiza for some time.
Marta Díaz has insisted that this situation is aggravated by the high cost of living on the island, where rental prices have skyrocketed, due to lack of housing, and those of the shopping basket. In this sense, he has once again demanded that the insularity bonus is equated of the public employees of Ibiza with the plus of the Canary Islands or Ceuta and Melilla.
Likewise, the ex-insular socialist minister wanted to value “the work and effort of health personnel” of the public network in Ibiza “with the means at its disposal to give the best care to patients and their families”.
Therefore, Marta Díaz considers it legitimate that, taking into account what is collected in Ibiza, “is also invested in the island and there is attention to the aspirations and concerns of the citizenry, such as health, and not an oblivion caused by insularity and sometimes also by the contempt and disregard of other Administrations”.
For this reason, it has raised a motion to the plenary session of the insular institution where it claims the regional Executive that presides over the socialist Francina Armengol what improve health care on the island of Ibiza and invest more human, financial and material resources.
From the Balearic Medical Union (SIMEBAL) have warned on numerous occasions of the shortage of professionals in the Balearic public health and have recently advocated for declare Ibiza and Formentera territories of difficult coverage. They call on Minister Gómez to approve this declaration for the Pitiusas Health Area, without having to wait for the criteria established by the Interterritorial Health Council.
Simebal explains that the real problem lies in hospital carewith almost all the specialties having problems completing their templates due to a lack of physicians who want to go to work in Ibiza.
