Mazarrón Town Hall to launch petition for 24/7 A&E services in Puerto de Mazarrón

Efforts continue to improve health care in the municipality of Mazarrón

The Murcia regional health service has been coming in for some stick lately, with doctors and other medical staff threatening strikes, patients being reassigned to new GPs and various other problems related to financing, and the Mayor of Mazarrón has decided this is the right time to step up the pressure in his campaign for a 24/7 A&E service in the health centre of Puerto de Mazarrón.

Ginés Campillo believes that Mazarrón can wait no longer for this service, having received no reply to his requests from the regional government, and has announced that a petition is to be launched to demonstrate public support for his repeated requests. “We need the whole of the municipality to support the initiative because we are talking about a basic right”, he averred in a press release on 13^th February.

It may be that this is not viewed as necessary for residents of Camposol and Mazarrón Country Club as they are nearer to the health centre in Mazarrón town, but for those in the port and in the villages of La Azohía and Isla Plana (which are in the municipality of Cartagena but whose residents are designated to the medical services in Mazarrón) the opening of a reliable emergency service in Puerto de Mazarrón would be a considerable boon. As things stand at present, for those in La Azohía the nearest 24-hour A&E services are a 17-minute drive away in Mazarrón or in the city of Cartagena.

It has not yet been made clear where members of the public will be able to sign the petition, but it is to be expected that it will be in your nearest surgery and possibly in pharmacies: await further news here!

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