2023-12-17 15:50:00
One of the first measures taken by the Minister of Health, Monica Garcia, has been its clear commitment to the creation of the specialty of Infectious Diseases. This news is received with “prudent joy” by the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (Seimc), which trusts that the updating of the technical committee by the autonomous communitieskey to starting the procedure for creating the specialty, is achieved immediately, because “it cannot be wait for christmas to do it”.
The different promises made by former health ministers When creating the Infectious specialty, they are not forgotten by Javier Membrillo, vice president of the Seimc. The specialist stands out in Medical Writing that “Health has already made similar statements to García and mandates have ended without executing what was promised. Despite this, it is significant that this announcement comes in the first weeks of the minister’s mandate, so it is a priority line.”
The information collected by the vice president of the company is that the convocation of the technical committee for start the procedures for creating Infectious “it is imminent, a situation identical to that experienced with the minister Carolina Darias. The municipal and general elections have paralyzed the process, a scenario that is not understood, since a committee of these characteristics should not be stopped by an electoral process.”
“Ministers before García have ended their mandates without executing what they promised”
The representatives of this technical committee are appointed by the Health Counseling of the different autonomous communities, many of them with new leaders at the helm following the last regional elections. Membrillo is no stranger to this scenario and remembers that “the majority of communities are not being governed by the same party that heads the Central Government”. Faced with this situation, the specialist calls for “avoiding any political obstruction or positioning in favor or once morest a Ministry of Health because it belongs to one party or another.” On the other hand, the vice president recalls that “we are talking regarding a need for patients and scientific evidence shows that in scenarios of complex infections, patient survival is greater if they are treated by a specialist in this field.”
Creating Infectious will remove the current randomness
Membrillo highlights that all the aspects and details required by the Royal Decree for the preparation of the Infectious Diseases specialty “have already been presented, so it is necessary the technical committee meeting for the vote to take place and a minimum of seven autonomous communities give support to the process.” Next, the specialist lists the next steps that the specialty must go through, such as “the human resources commission, the presentation of the Royal Decree and its subsequent public hearing. “You can’t wait until next year to start all this.”
“There is no legal mechanism that guarantees that the person who cares has formal training in Infectious Diseases”
One of the main advantages that Spain will acquire once it has the specialty approval is, in Membrillo’s words, that “patients They will not be exposed to randomness. Right now when a patient goes to a hospital with infectious complications from a transplant, hepatitis, HIV, etc. There is no legal mechanism that guarantees that the person who cares has formal training in Infectious Diseases.”
Another change highlighted by the specialist is that, with the approval of the Infectious specialty at the Spanish level, from that precise moment “a large number of Spanish doctors specialized in other countries They will be able to return and contribute their knowledge to Spanish healthcare.” Until now, Membrillo remembers that “since the specialty does not legally exist, one cannot practice as a specialist in Infectious Diseases in Spain.”
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