Madrid (EFE).- The Community of Madrid confirmed on Tuesday that the situation at the Abrantes Health Center, in the Carabanchel area, has been “resolved”, since people who need treatment “have been given a way out” and are being received “in the shortest possible time” in the same center or referred to another.
Speaking to the media during an event on Tuesday on the Digital Talent Plan courses, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment, Rocio Albert, praised the claims of the residents of Carabanchel, who traveled by bicycle from Madrid to Geneva to report before the United Nations and the World Health Organization the lack of doctors and pediatricians in their health center, which affects 30,000 people, including 4,000 children.
Albert explained that the Ministry of Health has been “working for some time” on this issue affecting primary care, while noting that “it will not be resolved from today to tomorrow.”
In this vein, he explained that the Community of Madrid has offered “a great incentive of 500 additional euros for family doctors to go to the areas most in need.”
“We are doing everything we can, and that approvals are made faster,” said the Madrid councillor, who once again called on the Ministry of Health.
According to Albert, in the case of pediatricians “there is no big problem”, but there is a problem with family doctors “who are increasingly needed and there are not enough people”.
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