The deputy secretary of Health and Social Policies of the Partido Popular, Carmen Fúnez, announced this Friday that they will promote an in-depth review of the medicine law "with a great deal of rigor" and "hand in hand with all the agents involved" in the event that they come to power after the elections of November 29.
As she explained, this is one of the regulatory amendments that the PP considers priorities for the next political phase, by understanding that the current law is outdated. "It is one of the reforms that we have to tackle in the coming years because we have a medicine law that responds to Spain from 20 years ago and not to today, and it is also one of those projects that the minister sold and that in the end has ended up in an authentic frustration," she said in statements to the media after an information meeting organized by Europa Press.
The Ministry of Health headed by Mónica García has been working on this reform during the legislature, and the Council of Ministers came to send the bill to the Congress of Deputies for parliamentary processing, but the initiative ultimately lost momentum after the electoral call.
Fúnez also criticized the large volume of observations that the text received during the public consultation period. She pointed out that the draft was the subject of "more than 6,000 submissions from 600 different areas" and she emphasized that "clearly, if there is a bill that receives 6,000 submissions, it is clear that it has neither been discussed, nor agreed upon, nor does it respond to the concerns and to the interests of the sector."
In another matter, the leading figure of the Partido Popular stressed that her party would maintain the current pharmacy model in Spain. She defended that the PP would continue to bet on this system "because if we were talking about cohesion, our current pharmaceutical model strengthens the cohesion of the National Health System through access, through the ease of access that patients have to medicines and to treatments," she reiterated.