Murciano Health Service has a staff of more than 2,700 doctors and nurses in primary care
The Minister of Health and Social Policy in office, Catalina Lorenzo, said today at the opening of the Conference on Primary Health Care held in Cieza, that "primary care is an essential pillar in the health system to promote early detection, push styles healthy, healthy living, promote prevention and improve services for the chronically ill. "
Lorenzo, who was accompanied by the managing director of the Murcia Health Service (SMS), Manuel Angel Moreno, and the managing director of the Health IX-Vega Alta, Carlos Arenas said the "breakthrough experienced by the Primary Care Over recent decades qualitative and quantitative "level.
The patient recalled the minister, access to health care through primary care and, therefore, added, "We must strengthen our human and material resources, commitment to innovation and to encourage professionals to continue their education so that our patients are cared for with guarantees. "
Specifically, they are performed each year in the region nearly nine million consultations of Family Medicine and Pediatrics and more than four million nursing visits.
To do this, the SMS, the latest data available, has more than 2,700 doctors and nurses.
This template of healthcare professionals carries out his work in the 83 health centers in primary care, in 180 offices and 48 points Urgent Care is in the nine areas Health Health Map.
Primary Care, Lorenzo said, "is the basic and initial level of care, a level that ensures the comprehensiveness and continuity of care throughout the entire life of our patients, and this urges us to strengthen and promote coordination protocols with the Hospital Care ".
30th anniversary
This week Cieza Health Center-East Area Health IX-Vega Alta del Segura, and Health Center Torre-Pacheco, Health Area VIII-Mar Menor, celebrated its 30th anniversary.
To do this, professionals from both schools have organized commemorative events.
So Cieza Health Center-This makes a Primary Care Conference taking place today and tomorrow, and which have been opened by Catalina Lorenzo.
A meeting in which nearly 50 primary care professionals involved.
Lorenzo also participate this afternoon in the events in the Health Center Torre-Pacheco.
Its professionals have organized a meeting until next Friday, June 12th, which is intended to elaborate on various aspects of primary care.
Source: CARM