The People's Party candidate for Congress of Deputies for the province of Las Palmas, Jimena Delgado, during her visit last Tuesday to Lanzarote and La Graciosa, announced that, among other measures, her party defends a shock plan to "protect and strengthen" the National Health System to "solve the serious problem of specialist shortages in Spain", she said.
A visit to present the proposals included in the PP's electoral program to groups and citizens of these islands, and in which she was accompanied by the also candidate for Congress, Lorena Martín, and the popular candidate for the Senate for the Lanzarote constituency, Jeziel Martín.
Jimena Delgado stressed that Spain has "one of the best public health systems in the world and a staff of highly qualified professionals." She also recalled that "it is true that the pandemic has subjected them, but Spanish healthcare has responded."
In this sense, she indicated that "faced with the neglect of the Sánchez Government, the PP is committed to studying everything that has been affected, in terms of the functioning of the system and healthcare, to correct it with better management, more innovation, better policy, more foresight and, above all, greater agreement and consensus with the entire Spanish healthcare community, patients and regional administrations."
She also stressed that "we propose a shock plan in Primary Care in which immediate proposals will be combined to cover positions with structural measures that ensure a provision of personnel for Primary Care, capable of allowing it to continue to be the backbone of the National Health System." "With a more community-based approach and with greater resolution capacity," the popular candidate advanced.
Modernize, reorganize and strengthen Primary Care
"Our goal is to modernize, reorganize and strengthen Primary Care, eliminate bureaucracy in care, streamline consultations and create support units, as well as guarantee patient accessibility and adapt the offer of diagnostic and care services such as home care or telemedicine to the real needs of the patient," added Delgado.
"When we come to the Government, we will promote a State pact for Healthcare, a new General Healthcare Law, a new financing model, the reintegration of Healthcare and Social Services into one department, and the development of Primary Care based on the needs of patients and the requests of professionals, with the aim of improving the structure and functioning of the National Health System, making it more sustainable and solvent," concluded Delgado.
