Health explains how the return to public management of the Dénia Hospital will be
The Minister for Universal Health and Public Health, Miguel Mínguez, and the regional secretary for Health Efficiency and Technology, Concha Andrés, held a meeting with mayors of the 33 municipalities of the Marina Alta to address the return to public management of the health care of the Dénia health department.
During the meeting, Mínguez recalled that the concession contract for health care and the Dénia health department to Marina Salud SA ends on January 31, 2024 and that the Department of Health has already informed the company of its intention not to extend it. Therefore, from that date, the Department of Health will recover the direct management of the public health service of the department of Dénia.
Rollback Rules
Likewise, the company has also been sent a document with the reversal rules in which the department's information is requested as well as the constitution of working groups "so that the process is carried out with the maximum transparency and normality and guaranteeing health care to the citizens of the department of Dénia", according to Minister Miguel Mínguez.
The department comprises the 33 municipalities of the Marina Alta region: Alcalalí, l'Atzúbia, Beniarbeig, Benidoleig, Benigembla, Benimeli, Benissa, Calp, Castell de Castells, Dénia, Gata de Gorgos, Llíber, Murla, Ondara, Orba, Parcent, Pedreguer, Pego, Poble Nou de Benitatxell, Els Poblets, el Ràfol d'Almúnia, Sagra, Sanet y Negrals, Senija, Teulada, Tormos, the Vall d'Alcalà, the Vall d'Ebo, the Vall de Gallinera, the Vall de Laguar, el Verger, Xàbia and Xaló, with a population of around 199.300 inhabitants.
"The objective is to continue complying with the road map set by the government of the Botànic. By resuming the direct management of the service in the Marina Alta, as we have already done with Alzira and Torrevieja after 15 years in private hands, public health is reinforced , which cannot be subject to business criteria", the head of Health explained to the mayors.
Situation of professionals
In addition, the head of Health has added that the process is being carried out "through dialogue and with the maximum legal guarantees" and has conveyed a message of tranquility to the professionals who provide services in the department.
In this sense, the working group created with professionals from different general directorates of the Ministry of Health to lead the transition, as detailed by Mínguez, "is collecting, since its constitution last summer, all the necessary documentation and information."