The Council of Valencian Medical Associations has agreed to request an "urgent" meeting with the new Minister of Health, Miguel Mínguez, and act "without delay" to stop the "deterioration" of Primary Care. The request for a meeting is produced "taking up the offer of dialogue made" by the minister himself during the act of taking office last Monday.

This has been decided at the first meeting of the council held in Castellón, in which they have demanded to expand the offer of training and work for medical specialists and the improvement of contracts and conditions for "dignified medical" practice, as reported by the entity it's a statement.

The presidents of the three medical associations of the Valencian Community -Mercedes Hurtado, from Valencia; Hermann Schwarz, from Alicante, and José María Breva, from Castellón-, together with their respective teams, jointly analyzed the problems that affect health in the three provinces, among which the situation of "serious deterioration" of Primary Care stands out, as they expose.

For the three collegiate entities, "it is necessary to provide an economic budget, improve technical resources, and the necessary medical personnel to promote public health at all levels and allow quality health care to be offered."

In particular, they consider that in Primary Care "urgent measures are needed if you want to stop and reverse its deterioration after years of lack of investment in this level of care by the health administration, despite repeatedly recognizing the importance it has as a gateway of patients to the health system.

In this line, these needs “are also detected in hospital care and emergency and emergency services”, according to Dr. José María Breva, who chairs the Council and the College of Physicians of Castellón.

Waiting to resume this dialogue, which they denounce has been "non-existent" with the previous minister, Ana Barceló, the Council of Valencian Medical Associations conveys to Mínguez the need to strengthen the medical staff, who maintain that they have came out "very harmed" compared to the rest of the health professions in the recent expansion of places carried out by the Department, and this "offense" is "compensated" in the announced creation of more than 800 pending places after the disappearance of the covid reinforcements.

Likewise, the Council of Valencian Medical Associations offers to collaborate with the Ministry in planning the needs of medical personnel in the medium term, and in creating formulas aimed at "loyalty" to doctors through "stable contracts and in conditions that allow the practice of medicine with all the ethical and deontological guarantees, avoiding the current flight of doctors from the Valencian public system and the loss of talent and investment in training and specialization».