Salvador Illa presents the Health accounts and clarifies that the decree of the state of alarm does not allow home confinements

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• New accounts Health monopolizes 7,300 million euros in the new budgets, 75.3% more than in the previous ones

One billion for primary care, another one thousand for vaccines against covid, 400 for the renewal of health technologies, a new national public health center and elimination of the copayment for vulnerable groups.

These are the

that the Ministry of Health has launched in the wake of the General State Budget Project (PGE) for 2021.

The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, presented this Friday the details of the accounts of his department for 2021 according to the budget project that began its parliamentary process on Thursday.

The state budget for health policies will reach 7,330 million euros in 2021, which is 75.3% more than in the budget extended for 2020. The bulk of this increase (2,945 of the 3,148 million extra added to the budget this year ) corresponds, however, to the European funds to face the crisis derived from the covid.

Without them, spending on health policies would grow by only 4.9% (203 million more than in 2020).

The items directly linked to the Ministry of Health (the rest of the health policy items are managed by other ministries) will

, as highlighted by Illa.

When asked if, despite the strong increase, it will be enough to face the bill for the covid, which doctors estimate at more than 22,000 million euros, the minister said he felt

[in the budget project]. I think there will be enough resources to be able to deal with the covid with guarantees and also to strengthen the National Health System ", since to calculate the total amount allocated to face the covid there would be We must also add the health budget of the autonomies, which are responsible for executing the bulk of public health spending.

Specifically, thanks to the

and the territories of Europe (REACT-EU),

will be allocated in the state budget

and Community

, which will be allocated to any case to the autonomies.

The other big item will be the

that will be used to purchase covid vaccines.

Minister Illa, who just a few days ago reported the agreement to purchase

(of which 1.12 will be paid with the European aid fund), which would not reach even 100 million euros, has explained that the rest of the amount foreseen up to 1,000 million in vaccines will be used practically in its entirety for the purchase of vaccines effectively and not for their administration or other issues : "There is a forecast of 1,000 million euros. Not all vaccines are going to be bought at the same price. Spain is in the

. And practically all of those 1,000 million are going to be dedicated to the purchase of vaccines. Each time a contract is signed, the details of the price, number of doses, etc. I think this is a fairly exact figure that seeks to have the best vaccines and as soon as possible ", said Illa.

The European funds will also allow a strong investment in the renovation of health technology that has not been detailed during the ministerial intervention, but that in the budget project appears with an endowment of 400 million euros, in line with the demand made in this regard by the sector of a

.

The health technology and products employer association,

, has valued as positive the inclusion in the budgets of "a plan for the renewal of health technologies in the SNS for

regions. Fenin had requested repeatedly over the last few years the need to make an estimated additional investment of at least 400 million euros per year over 4 years to complete the estimated global figure of 1.6 billion euros for the renovation of the healthcare technology park " , which is obsolete.

In addition to these three major measures, the budget project includes the promise of

.

The European injection will also make it possible to allocate 234 million euros to large digital health projects, including the future vaccination registry that will be ready to count those who are immunized against covid when the first vaccines are available, according to the Ministry of Health.

Another of the loudest measures of the health budget project, the result of the Government agreement with Podemos, is the

.

The Secretary of State for Health, Silvia Calzón, explained that this measure, which

, will be applied to minors with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33 percent, recipients of the economic benefit of Social Security for a dependent child or minor in permanent foster care or guardianship for adoption purposes and pensioners with incomes below 5,635 euros, or 11,200 euros if they are not required to file a personal income tax return.

According to health estimates, 6.047 million people will be able to benefit from the change.

Finally, Calzón has also announced the recovery of the Health Cohesion Fund to reinforce care in the SNS Reference Centers and Units, with an endowment of 66 million euros and the

.

Although Illa has clearly said that it is too early to know who will direct it and where its headquarters will be located, the budget already includes the

.

As Illa explained, "it will be done within a year. Of course, neither the headquarters nor who is going to direct it has been decided, we are still deciding the legal nature of this center and its structure. When we have that sufficiently mature and discussed with the autonomies will be communicated, "he said about the new center that, in principle, would include the current Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies and other services.

Just a few days after the first national doctors' strike in 25 years took place on Tuesday due to the approved human resources decree and the rumors that emerged on Thursday about the dismissal of the director of Professional Regulation of the Ministry of Health, Illa

.

"When changes are decided in the Ministry of Health I will inform them," he said.

An outdated state of alarm?

The large numbers and announcements have not prevented Illa's appearance from being the protagonist of the latest events, from Madrid's request to confine the city to the perimeter for days to the demand of Castilla y León, the Basque Country or Catalonia to allow home confinements.

In this regard, Illa has been clear:

that the minister trusts are not necessary.

"The state of alarm [drafted and approved in its current terms that does not allow home confinement] will not become obsolete. Yesterday we took a very important step with its approval. It does not allow home confinements but we are convinced that if action is taken with the tools that do allow this state of alarm will stabilize and bend the curve "said Illa.

Regarding Madrid's decision to establish perimeter confinements only during public holidays Illa has clarified that "neither the Ministry of Health nor the Government of Spain have to authorize anything", but

that they have decided to adopt and, whatever has to be debated, will be done in the Interterritorial Council, he said.

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