Representatives of the Albox Association of Businesspeople and Professionals (AEPA) recently met with Gracia Fernandez Moya, the new director of the Huercal Overa hospital, to communicate the concerns of many of their members about the lack of a paediatrician in their town and ask the director to rectify the situation the local medical centre finds itself in.
The hospital director's response was one of resignation, telling those at the meeting that there are no specialists available in Spain at the moment, with vacancies for specialists and general practitioners being filled by foreigners whose qualifications are inferior to those taught in Spanish universities. Ms. Fernandez told them that there are only two paediatricians left in the area, one in Seron and the other in Olula de Rio, with vacancies in this speciality being filled by experienced G.P.s.
Ms. Fernandez added that she was presently meeting the staff of all the medical centres in the catchment area of the hospital in order to help them improve the organisation of their on-call system and that they had also introduced a scheme allowing people with chronic illnesses to get their prescriptions filled directly in the pharmacy without having to see the doctor, something which should free uo the doctors' time for other patients.
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