Vitoria, 17 nov (EFE).-Basque health, Rafael Bengoa, Advisor has today sent a letter to his counterpart in La Rioja, José Ignacio Nieto, to hold an “urgent meeting”, in order to reach an agreement on the problem of patient care Alava facing Governments two autonomous regions.
Sources of the Basque Health Department explained to Efe that had been already held other three interviews, always on the initiative of the Executive of the Basque country, between health representatives of the two regional governments without that no agreement is reached.
In the letter sent today, Bengoa requests grandson an appointment “urgent” to solve this conflict that began last September, when the Rioja Government decided to care for patients of the Rioja alavesa, that they usually attended the hospital San Pedro of Logroño, close to their homes to the hospitals of Vitoria.
The same sources have pointed out that, in his letter, the Basque Councillor again claim to La Rioja, unless an agreement is reached to again meet immediately the patients Alava.
The first of the three meetings held so far occurred October 21 in Haro (La Rioja) between two advisers, the second on October 28 in Logroño Osakidetza, Julián Pérez, director-general and the Manager of the San Pedro Hospital of Logroño, MarÃa Luz of the martyrs, and the third was on 8 November between Pérez and the director-general of health of the Government of La Rioja, José Miguel Acitores.
In addition, Osakidetza sources have indicated that there had been an exchange of mail between the two health administrations without any progress because the Basque Executive has always been as a condition that becomes first to provide assistance to the patients Alava.
