Payment to suppliers makes health to remove their aid to the autonomous regions in the field of AIDS and oral health

MADRID, 3 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Ministry of health, social services and equality none item specific budget for 2012 to assist communities in oral health or aid to the fight against AIDS as in previous years, alleging that the State is already collaborating with the autonomies assuming part of its deficit and helping to pay off the debt to suppliers go.

So have recognised the general Secretary of health, Pilar Farjas, and the Secretary of State for social services and equality, Juan Manuel Moreno, in a press conference organized to explain the proposed budgets for the Department of the Minister Ana Mato.

As Moreno explained, “the State has assumed much of the public deficit in exclusivity when it is the set of public administrations”, through the creation of plans for payment to suppliers or the absorption of deficit.

This makes, as she added, that “programmes were complementary and already meet the communities folded”.

East the case of the oral health Plan launched by the previous Government in 2007, by which the Ministry went every year a specific allocation to communities (17,12 billion in 2011) for start-up or further programmes aimed at ensuring children aged 7 to 15 oral care.

However, this specific item disappears as such of the health budget and, as he has added Farjas, integrates under the general heading the State allocated to communities under the financing arrangements agreed between them and the Ministry of finance.

Something similar happens with allocations to finance programmes of AIDS prevention – both communities and associations and NGOs – which, so far, were centralized in the National Plan on AIDS.

In this sense, Farjas has confirmed will be allocating aid to non-governmental organizations in this field, 3.52 million euros according to the 2012 budget. However, removed the specific support given to communities, the amount of which has not been specified.

However, in both cases the general Secretary of health is convinced that regional governments will continue to support these initiatives, although he reminded that communities “have their own autonomy to define his contribution to each health strategy”.

Moreover, Farjas has recognized the “effort” made by the Executive to make “austere” budgets in health and has recognized that reduction of 6.8 percent under this heading has been achieved due to adjustment of staff and the reduction of advertising campaigns.