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The new ambulance contract will not include hemodialysis users


Ambulance transport of patients attending dialysis. / TODAY

Subsidies or resorting to taxis for the displacement of dependent people are also proposed

John Soriano

The new health transport contract in Extremadura will not include users who require travel to attend hemodialysis treatments. In this way, the cost of a contest that is conditioned by compliance with a Supreme Court ruling on effective working hours will be reduced.

The managing director of the Extremadura Health Service (SES), Ceciliano Franco, has announced that the next management contract for the provision of hemodialysis will also include travel from home for those people who must attend their treatment and do not require an ambulance. In this way, it will no longer be within the general medical transport service and scheduled activity will be released.

Likewise, Franco has indicated that work is being done with the Sepad and the General Directorate of Transport of the Junta de Extremadura so that people with a certain level of dependency who do not require an ambulance to travel to health centers can use other means of transport, either by taxi or by means of a subsidy to private means.

Franco has appeared before the Health Commission of the Assembly of Extremadura to answer a question from Joaquín Macías, deputy of United for Extremadura, about the new health transport contest after the previous tender was canceled last month.

Macías has asked about the future of the coordinating center, since the Minister of Health, José María Vergeles, has announced that he will continue not to be part of the ambulance contest, which will maintain the previous model with one batch per province.

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The managing director of the SES has explained that this service will be assumed by the regional Administration through a public company. This will allow current staff to be maintained through subrogation. Work is currently being done on the adaptation of the new facilities with an eye toward their entry into service in September.

Ceciliano Franco explained that the previous contest was annulled due to the impact of the Supreme Court ruling that establishes that the on-site guard duty of the workers, which is considered a complement, must be computed as effective working time and that the sector cannot take advantage of the system of special days. In this way, they cannot exceed 1,800 hours per year, while in the model that is still applied they can exceed 2,700.

The new contest will adapt to this sentence, but the SES estimates that only 90 more technicians are necessary, since it considers that it only affects 24-hour emergency personnel. This represents around 1 million euros more than in the previous contract. The unions and the company that now provides the service consider that it is necessary to add 400 workers or more.

Along with this, the contract will be adapted to current prices, especially with regard to fuel, and will apply the new regional regulations on cost review. For the same purpose, it will have a duration of one year and up to four annual extensions, with which it is intended to give legal certainty to the tender and allow in the future to adapt to new legal modifications.

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