28-10-2020 | Cs
The GPCs Health spokesperson proposes "the creation of a Public Health Agency" as well as "a financing program for the hiring of reinforcement health personnel"
"The responsibility of the Government does not end in declaring a state of alarm, we need a National Plan for health coordination", The spokesman for Health of the Citizens Parliamentary Group (GPCs), Guillermo Díaz, has warned in his interpellation to the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa. "Stop calculating the cost of image or the opportunity of a measure and apply common criteria of scientific basis whether or not they are popular," he demanded.
The liberal deputy has criticized "the constant dynamics of blocs and partisanship", which has prevailed on many occasions since the beginning of the pandemic. In this sense, Díaz recalled that last week while presenting “a cosmetic motion in Congress, Ciudadanos agreed in the Senate to PSOE and PP to urge the Government to carry out an independent study of the management of the pandemic ”. In addition, the orange party managed to get support from the Upper House, "the reserve of strategic material and the implementation of the Covid radar app, which is still underused with respect to everything that can contribute and complement the work of the trackers", has explained.
Díaz has demanded a "National Health Coordination Plan" because "it is necessary that all available resources be used." Likewise, the GPCs Health spokesperson has proposed that “the creation of a Public Health Agency that assumes the competences that correspond to the State in matters of Health, Foreign Affairs and public health” as well as “a state funding program to provide coverage to the hiring of reinforcement health personnel ”. “Pharmacists' screening capabilities are not being fully exploited. They could be a great reinforcement of sampling and tracking ”, has also suggested the orange deputy to the Minister of Health.
Regarding the declaration of the state of alarm and the rendering of accounts, Díaz has demanded that the Executive submit to the control of the Chamber and that "do their part, that is, exercise the functions attributed to them by the laws and the Constitution." . "You are not a self-help clinic that the Autonomous Communities call", the deputy of Cs has ironized, who has demanded "firm, objective and homogeneous criteria that clear all doubts for citizens."
During the reply, Díaz expressed his concern about the impact that the pandemic is causing on the mental health of citizens and about the increase in suicides, “we have to work on a prevention plan because confinement and fear of the crisis is a cocktail that can do a lot of damage ”, he asserted.
