The Minister of Health of the Valencian Community, Miguel Mínguez, will not give explanations in the regional parliament about the case of the man who died in La Marina due to a delay in the arrival of the ambulance, which was sent from 35 kilometres away when he had another one much closer.
This emergency was managed from the new CICU emergency call centre, centralised in Valencia, which the Generalitat launched last January after closing the centres in Alicante and Castellón against the recommendations of workers, medics and unions.
Mínguez himself refuses to accept the request of the Ciudadanos parliamentary group, who had requested his appearance to explain what had happened.
Their spokesperson for Health, Fernando Llopis, considers that this decision “portrays the minister”, who “promised transparency and availability, hides so as not to give explanations for the coordination disaster with the centralisation of the CICU in Valencia”.
“The Valencian socialists would never have allowed their emergency services to be managed from Alicante”, added Llopis, for whom “we have already warned that this centralisation of the emergency service with ignorance of the province of Alicante was a mistake”.
For the deputy, “it seems that the life of the people of Alicante is worth less for the Valencian socialists” and has affirmed that “not coming to give explanations is to justify the error of the decision of the socialist candidate for Mayor of Alicante, Ana Barceló, who was responsible for the decision to centralise the service without proper planning”.
For his part, the spokesperson for the PP for Health, José Juan Zaplana, denounced this Tuesday that the PSOE-led regional government, “has left the health of the province of Alicante in an unfortunate situation, with a wait of up to three years for a surgical operation”.
Zaplana, who has made these statements in Alicante together with the president of the PP in the province of Alicante, Toni Pérez, has lamented that “eight years have been lost in health management and that at this time the health collapse is total.” “With the Puig government, the average wait for an operation has doubled, from 40 days to 80.”
The PP Health spokesman has criticized that there has not been “any health reinforcement plan this Easter, which has triggered appointments in health centres to a month.” “There is no room for greater contempt for patients and the professionals who care for them,” added Zaplana.
