The Leader Newspaper 14 August 23 - Edition 984

No 984 Monday 14th - Sunday 20th August 2023

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t is not yet known if the Dénia health authority will return into public hands on 1 February 2024, as the Valencian Government planned before the 28M elections, but what the new Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, has said is that the areas that were reverted will remain in the public domain.

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This was confirmed by Gómez in an interview he gave to the Spanish media, in which he flatly ruled out going the other way in the Ribera and Torrevieja health areas that were returned to public management in 2018 and 2021, respectively. "No, where we have direct management, we have to try to improve that management effectively and efficiently. We are not considering reversing the path back to private health again”, said Gómez, who pointed out that it would not be a good strategy in a number of areas, particularly for "personnel, working conditions... it would be difficult". The socialist spokesman for Health in the Corts, Rafa Simó, had previously denounced the new Government of Mazón stating that it would be looking to turn back to private management, and that Vox was promoting the reversal, and had already begun the process by presenting motions in the consistories of Vega Baja requesting this reprivatisation of the Torrevieja hospital, taking advantage, as they say, of the need to provide the best service "at the lowest possible cost". Gómez, however, has ruled out this possibility outright considering the problems at all levels that such a decision would entail. What Gómez has not clarified is the future of the two reversals already scheduled and that, in principle, the previous team of ex-minister Miguel Mínguez left running in the Dénia health area, currently in the hands of Ribera Salud, and the Manises area, managed by Sanitas.

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The Leader Newspaper 14 August 23 - Edition 984

Published on Aug 13, 2023

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The new Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, has flatly ruled out any reversion of the Torrevieja Health Authority, back into the hands of private management. We are not considering reversing the path back to private health again”, said Gómez, who pointed out that it would not be a good strategy in a number of areas, particularly for "personnel, working conditions... it would be difficult, " he said. Meanwhile, representatives of the Tourism sector want to postpone the start of the school year because of the high temperatures that will almost certainly be experienced by students in their classrooms and in order to boost holiday reservations in its resorts. The sector believes that the month of September could be extremely productive for the industry if families did not have to take their children to school while the current good weather continues.