Loss of specialties, reduction of doctors and specialists, withdrawal of hospital centersproblems with the authorization of interventions or sealing of prescriptions and, ultimately, a reduction in the healthcare portfolio. This is the panorama that people face every day. more than 70,000 national police officers and their families, who now face a new crossroads: the health insurers leave the Government in the lurch and do not attend the Muface concert. And the reason is none other than refusal of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive to extend the annual bonus above 17.2%.
Already in a survey carried out in March 2022 by the JUPOL union, through CSIF, 50% of the officials surveyed admitted to having suffered cuts without prior notice, having stopped receiving care from their usual doctors or having suffered incidents related to their healthcare. Besides, 14% have seen access to their usual hospital limited and they have proposed that you pay for a medical consultation or to continue receiving treatment. The most problematic specialties are Primary Care, Dermatology, Digestive, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Traumatology, Analytical, Pediatrics or emergencies on weekends.
Yesterday, medical insurers, Adeslas, Asisa and DKV said “no” to Sánchezcreating a climate of uncertainty in the face of a situation that was already “unsustainable.” For this reason, many groups of officials have approached the Executive to increase the budget allocation for Muface. From Jupol, its general secretary, Aaron Rivera, has gone one step further and sent a letter to Sánchez.
Insufficient budget for Muface
In that letter, Rivero reminded the Chief Executive of the reduction in the quality of health services that agents have been experiencing for years due to these “budget constraints.” Likewise, he has highlighted the “crucial role” of
agents in the maintenance of security and public order and the need to put an end to this problem that has, in his opinion, three main focuses: a insufficient budget, increasing healthcare costs and limitations in services.
In this sense, remember that Muface depends on the state budget that any reduction or stagnation in this directly affects the services and coverage offered to its beneficiaries. He insists that The Government cannot remain oblivious to the increase in the costs of health services and demands, like many other groups, a “greater budget allocation” for Muface.
Thus, the letter concludes: “We hope that this request is received with the sensitivity it deserves and we trust in your commitment as President of the Government with the more than 70,000 national police officers and their families, with the improvement of the socio-sanitary and working conditions of the servants. public”.
Because ultimately, from this union, they consider that this situation is “unsustainable” and cannot be allowed to continue.reducing rights and worsening the socio-labor conditions of the National Police agents”.