The Ministry of Health responds to reducing primary care MIR would influence the quality of care quality

Reducing the MIR training of primary doctors for up to three years would have the influence Aid quality And especially for the care that chronic patients receive. This has responded by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Spain to the new proposal launched by the Minister of Health of the Basque Government, Alberto MartínezTo tackle the lack of doctors.

According to the ministry directed by Mónica García, Martínez’s approach would encourage precarious first -line care to hire professionals without specialization. They understand that the proposal of the Basque counselor is “not the solution”, but that part of the problem.

Moreover, the Spanish director remembers that last year the MIR training plan was approved with the approval of the autonomous communities. That plan states that MIR training in primary care must be four years old and not three.

Homologation of university titles

During a visit to the Bilbao Hospital de Santa Marina, the Basque counselor reported this new proposal after a judgment of the Supreme Court has canceled the transfer to Euskadi about the ability to standardize the diploma of foreign university.

Martínez also criticizes the Ministry of Health because the Basque government has launched various proposals to resolve the problem of lack of doctors – today is the latter – and “it has not answered us. It is disappointing. They don’t let us do or do,” he regretted.

The head of the Basque government has indicated that with the three -year reduction of the MIR process for primary care that proposes, a measure that would be “passing and voluntary” would be able to double the number of available doctors in four or five years.

He has noted that in European countries such as France and Italy, first -line care doctors have a three -year training, so it would be about the same as them in the light of “the critical situation” of this health area for the lack of doctors.