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The Green United Left-Municipal Group today called on the City Council, through a motion of Councilwoman Maria Rosa Mateo, urgently urge the Department of Health to recruit doctors to cover absences due to vacation physicians primary care in health centers and clinics in the municipality of Cartagena in order to ensure quality of care.

United Left-Greens and took the previous heart a motion to not close during the summer months some health centers and clinics, which won the team rejection Popular Party government.

Now the formation of the left claim that health centers that remain open are not covering the low vacation due to policy of cuts in Health of PP, which is causing health cards that correspond to physicians who enjoy his vacation period must be assumed by those who are working.

This means that by far exceeds the standards of the World Health Organization, which considers that the maximum number of health cards by doctor should be 900.

This situation causes many doctors can not provide the quality of care needed for patients, as they have to attend to in some cases 70, 80 or more a day.

Similarly it is producing a delay in the citations, which in some cases reach a week of delay.

This leads to many people decide to go to SUAP (Emergency Services Primary Care) or directly to hospital ER for treatment.

It is clear that the fact that a patient can be treated in your facility or office go to the ER, with the largest cost of this service (regardless of injury posed to others with more serious ailments that are elongated your waiting period), calls into question the policy of cuts PP, who wants to justify it as a cost-saving measures and more seem to follow his desire to dismantle the public health system to put it in the hands of private enterprise.

Source: IU-verdes Cartagena