The Mazarrón health centre has announced it will extend its agreement with the Red Cross to provide the municipality with 24-hour ambulance assistance, 365 days a year, and will also develop a new paediatric care model, another excellent achievement after the Town Hall managed to ensure this September that the Puerto de Mazarrón Health Centre would now remain open in the afternoons as well as the mornings.

 

This exciting news was declared during a recent visit by the Regional Health Minister in Murcia, Juan José Pedreño, to the Health Centre in Puerto de Mazarrón. The visit was also attended by the Mayor of Mazarrón Gaspar Miras, the Deputy Mayor Ginés Campillo, the Regional Deputy Inmaculada Lardín, the spokesperson of the Popular Party Alicia Jiménez and other representatives.

 

During his visit, Juan José Pedreño explained that they are undertaking “an initiative that will improve healthcare for the paediatric population”, a scheme that is being piloted in Mazarrón and will consist of a paediatrician from the Santa Lucía hospital who will have a specific agenda for the assessment of the most complex paediatric pathologies, and will come twice a week to the Mazarrón Health Centre and once a week to Puerto de Mazarrón. This will mean local residents will not have to go all the way to hospital for their paediatric health needs, but can be seen right there in Mazarrón.

 

At the same time, the councillor also announced that the Red Cross basic life support ambulance service will now be available 24 hours a day, every day of the year thanks to a new agreement they have secured.

 

Mazarrón Mayor Gaspar Miras gave his special “thanks for the new means provided to our municipality” but also took the opportunity to highlight “other shortcomings of which I think it is time to remind the Minister.”

 

He elaborated: “Mazarrón is a very diverse municipality and we need this healthcare, the 24-hour service that we have been claiming, the reinforcement in the endowments of primary care and paediatrics, so that our health centres are operational and the waiting lists are shortened. We hope that these demands will be resolved as soon as possible.”

 

Miras also gave his appreciation for the ambulance agreement with the Red Cross, which has been developed in the municipality for some time now, and reminded people that “the City Council of Mazarrón participates in the financing of almost 47% of this service, contributing 175,000 euros to it in 2022. We must also remind the Councillor that we are the only Town Council in the Region of Murcia that participates in this co-financing for health transport, we were the only municipality that was excluded from this macro-contract that was tendered to provide the service throughout the region and we undertake this expenditure on our part from the municipal coffers. For this reason, we also demand that health care in our municipality be as efficient as possible.”