Andrés García, PSOE candidate for Mayor of Totana, presented to Full Council to be held next Thursday, April 30, a proposal to establish an oncology unit at the Hospital Rafael Méndez.
The hospital covers an area of ​​influence of some 172,630 inhabitants and serves the area baseline health of the Region III, which includes the municipalities of Eagles, Aledo, Lorca, Puerto Lumbreras and Totana.
Andrés García said that this is a significant enough population to retain on their premises with an oncology unit providing health care to cancer patients Lorca, Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras, Totana and Aledo.
He said that this is one more of the unfulfilled commitments of the Popular Party, which has been promising these facilities over a decade, specifically, on June 4, 2007, publicly announced the creation of the oncology unit in four years.
He said that regardless of the broken promises of those who govern us, the reality is that today the Totana cancer patients have to travel most of them by ambulance to Murcia.
Displacements to make matters worse, now forced to make the patients themselves, due to cuts in health People's Party, to receive treatment in hospital reference can not.
A standardized treatments we remember, in many cases involve some harsh side effects in patients who receive them.
Andrés García was confident that the House unanimously approved this proposal because it will benefit tens of neighbors of Totana.
