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The residents of El Paretón-Cantareros have collected 918 signatures to request the Ministry of Health to restore the schedule of the doctor's office of this hamlet, which this summer has been reduced again in half, from providing Primary Care 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to do it only from 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. daily, from Monday to Friday.
Last summer, the number of patients was reduced to two hours a day in a hamlet that increases its population considerably in the summer.
The mayor, Andrés García, has met with the pedestrian mayor, Paqui Caballero, in order to support the neighborhood demands for the Murcian Health Service (SMS) to reconsider this restructuring in the summer health planning of the hamlet.
This situation has been causing discomfort among the nearly 2,000 users in this hamlet, who started a campaign of collection of signatures several weeks ago against this decision adopted by the Ministry of Health, and which has been extended since last June.
This measure of reduction of the time of the medical center was already taken by the Ministry of Health during the last years at this time of year, but this time, neighbors have reborn against the health authorities of Area III of Health with the collection of signatures.
The City Council of Totana and the Regional Assembly have already raised in the past years motions for the SMS to reconsider this restructuring of the hourly reduction applied during the summer months.
The neighbors advocate that the clinic of this hamlet has the reinforcement of a doctor more to withstand the pressure of care of the summer months instead of proceeding to the reduction of hours of medical services.
The mayor explained that we want the reconsideration of the measure so that in successive planning, the Ministry will have the benefit of reinforcing it with another doctor, since it is mostly a larger population that has difficulties to go to the Health Center OfTotana.
The hamlet of El Paretón-Cantareros is the one that has a greater number of inhabitants, and its population increases during the summer months to the existence in the zone numerous houses of second residence.
At present, the primary care clinic in El Paretón-Cantareros has two doctors of General Medicine and Pediatrics, and a nurse.
Also, users of this hamlet already have the discomfort of traveling to the "Totana-South" Health Center for emergencies outside these hours and during the weekends that no service is provided in the aforementioned office.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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