Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) has once again demanded that the Government of Aragón intervene urgently to resolve the delicate situation of the Neurology service at the Obispo Polanco Hospital in Teruel. Since last June, the three positions in the staff have remained unfilled, which is affecting the quality of healthcare received by hundreds of patients from the southern regions of Aragón.
The parliamentary questions have been registered by the deputy spokesperson of CHA in the Cortes of Aragón and spokesperson of CHA in the Health Commission, Isabel Lasobras, with the aim of clarifying what actions the Department of Health plans to carry out to ensure stable coverage of these positions and to prevent the citizens of Teruel from continuing to suffer healthcare assistance conditioned by precariousness and improvisation.
The spokesperson of CHA in the Teruel regions, Javier Carbó, has denounced that "the Government of Aragón cannot continue managing healthcare in Teruel based on patches. The lack of professionals forces the referral of patients to Zaragoza or to depend on telematic consultations and occasional travel by specialists, a situation that harms patients and highlights a new territorial grievance."
"If the Government speaks of territorial balance, it must demonstrate it with actions and ensure that hospitals have the necessary human resources to provide quality healthcare," Carbó has indicated.
CHA also wants to know what timeline the Department of Health is working with to definitively fill the three Neurology vacancies, as well as what structural measures or incentives it plans to implement to guarantee the occupation of hard-to-fill positions in rural and regional healthcare. Additionally, it requests to know what has been, from June until now, the average waiting time and the number of patients who have had to be referred to other healthcare sectors due to the absence of specialists.
"The neighbors of the Teruel regions have exactly the same rights. They cannot continue to be treated as second-class patients due to the lack of planning by the Government of Aragón," Javier Carbó concluded.