The Plenary of Totana addressed in its next session the joint motion of all four municipal groups to demand that the National Government is adequately resourced in the Budget Estado'2016 the Health Cohesion Funds, as reported by local sources a statement.
The City Council shows its support for ERDF and considers that a reversal should not result in health benefits for those affected by rare diseases Rare, guaranteeing all citizens the right to healthcare and equal treatment, whether in the autonomous community residing .
The plenary want to show your support to families and patients affected by this measure, which is a step backwards on rights and produces unequal access to health services, depending on the autonomous community in which you reside.
Apparently, the Health Cohesion Fund will run out of financial resources in 2016, leaving its survival to the financial availability of the different autonomous communities.
This instrument was born in 2011 in order to ensure that every citizen had guaranteed the treatment of their disease, regardless of the autonomous community in which his residence, can be treated and cared for in another.
This context has served for years to, among others, finance treatments Centres, Services and Units of Reference, as a State Responsibility pathologies, such as treatment and monitoring of some rare-rare diseases.
With the new situation, more unequal access to benefits, increasing barriers to patient referrals between regions, and have to bear the costs of health care which derives not being guaranteed economic sustainability of the units is generated Reference for treatments of rare diseases without bypass procedures.
