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The Mayor and Deputy Mayor maintained this morning a meeting in which they have expressed discomfort of citizenship by the treatment given to health in Cartagena and have demanded its reopening with more services

The Minister of Health, Encarna Guillen, is committed to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez and Ana Belen Castejon, to clarify in a short period of time what the future Rosell Hospital in Cartagena and services with it will.

Lopez and Castejon met this morning with the minister in Murcia and have moved the discomfort of citizens in the health area 2 for the discriminatory treatment that she receives, getting to have the lowest ratio in the region and in Spain As beds per thousand inhabitants.

A situation, which according to the mayor, has been compounded by the closure of the Hospital del Rosell after the opening of Santa Lucia.

In a hearing with the mayor, after the meeting, Lopez stressed the particular virulence with which always have the r health ecortes in Cartagena and noted that after construction of the Hospital of Saint Lucia, it was thought that the area was health to have two hospitals, which has not happened.

The mayor also denounced the systematic division that has undergone the health area 2 with the creation of new ones, such as the Ma Menor, while the area 1, the expanding of Murcia, potentiated and centralized.

He also explained that this poor health care gets worse in the summer where the only hospital of Cartagena, the Santa Lucia with 548 operating beds, comes to cover a population of over 400,000 inhabitants.

The Minister justified this situation in a new epidemiological reality, which requires different care, which for Lopez may be true, but it is noteworthy that the cuts have come as always in Cartagena and not alike in other parts of the region.

The Minister is committed in a short say q EU are to do with the Hospital del Rosell term. In what will be able to complement the Santa Lucia We want to be a reopening with top amenities such as a real hospital, because we do not want to remain the caboose, also in health care, but we are treated like the rest, he has pock the mayor.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena