Murciano Health Service has reduced medical services in Jumilla this summer, as adopted for years in these months, when registering, as indicated, less care pressure at certain points and to respond to an optimization of services.
During this July staff holidays Health Center are not replaced, with the same physicians who care bend adding to his list of patients those of their peers.
The novelty compared to last year is that in August itself is expected to be a substitute in the first half and two in the second, after demand last year of the Department of Public Health.
For its part, the Office of Barrio San Juan was closed on Friday, July 15 and will remain unserved until next September 15.
In this same period they are reduced from two to one day of consultation Health Center Cañada del Trigo, being now only on Fridays.
"In these two centers the situation is worse than last year, as was then the closing month and a half," stated the Councillor for Public Health, Lucia Jimenez.
In the Specialty Center in August agendas they are closed, so the waits are longer.
Also it undergoes changes in summer time the service UME (Mobile Unit Emergency) of 061. During this July of Jumilla is performing services not used the Yecla, while in August it will be the contrary, being Jumilla which will not provide the care.
In this case the staff remains unchanged.
This year has been unlike the past, something that according to Lucia Jimenez, illogical, since "in August Jumilla does not reduce the population, but increases on the occasion of their festivals, several preventive security being required by the various rides and influx of tourists. We will request that the service be strengthened, at least in the days when the holidays are developed ".
fifth pediatrician
Councillor for Public Health of the City of Jumilla has also referred to the Children's Health Center still does not have a fifth doctor, "even though it was approved your request in a motion over half a year ago and is budgeted to regional incorporation level after amendment of the opposition. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla