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The municipal groups MC, PSOE and CTSSP, after consultation with the Platform in Defense of Public Health `Save the Rosell', will present at the next Municipal Plenary, to celebrate on December 30, a motion to urge the Governing Council of the Autonomous Community to contemplate in the budgets of 2017 a specific item for the splitting of Area II of Health, considering that Law 4/1994 of July 26 of the Region of Murcia specifies that each health area will not exceed the 250,000 inhabitants and, Area II, which is where Cartagena is included, far surpasses them.

Likewise, the motion presented by the aforementioned municipal groups contemplates the development of Law 3/2016, of March 21, for the full functioning of the Santa María del Rosell Hospital as a general hospital, since it does not yet do so, incurring in Breach of the law.

Also, as a consequence of this last one, the motion contemplates the petition to the Plenum of the City Council to request to the municipal legal services the realization of a study on the possible legal measures that could be adopted against the breach of the 'Law of Rosell' .

The requests expressed above are motivated by the fact that, after many years of public struggle for a hundred percent Rosell, the work of the Platform in Defense of Public Health, together with the local pressure and the support of the majority of Political groups with representation in councils and Regional Assembly paid off in March 2016 when Law 3/2016, of March 21, came into force for the full functioning of the Santa María del Rosell Hospital as a general hospital.

As the law has not yet been developed despite being approved, data from the Murcian Health Service reveal that Area II contains a worrying number of people who remain on surgical waiting lists, well above the established maximum legal deadlines.

In the same way, there has been an increase in the number of people who exceed the maximum times to access first specialist consultations and diagnostic tests.

Thus, during this year the phases and deadlines established in this law have not been fulfilled, so that Health Area II is still none and forgotten by the Ministry, and Rosell without the functions of a general hospital .

Reasons more than obvious that justify the content of the motion exposed.

Source: MC