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The director and head of the Primary Care Health centers of Ronda Histórica and San Luis, Joaquín Torres Moreno, has been dismissed from both posts for "not complying with the indications" during Easter in the context of the alarm decreed by the state due to the coronavirus pandemic and "going in person" to perform telephone follow-up of patients with Covid-19 symptoms.

As stated in a letter with around 70 signatures of professionals from primary care health centers and as explained by Joaquín Torres Moreno to Europa Press, the Management's instruction to the center directors was that "professionals call their patients during the Easter holidays from their respective homes . "

However, calling from their homes "made it impossible" to access the computer system to view the patient's medical history , so the then director of both centers, with the aim of "decongesting hospital emergencies", went to the center together 16 health professionals to continue with the telephone follow-up during Good Thursday and Friday from the health center.

At that time, from both health centers, several nursing homes, convents and pastoral homes were monitored , according to Torres, who assures that on those four days - from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday - "we referred the hospital to some of the patients we were monitoring by phone. "

About 70 professionals have signed a statement regretting the cessation and stressing that "the commitment to patients and the professional and human ethics so necessary in our time was imposed with the help of 16 medical professionals on those two days of Easter despite of the instructions of the Management that did not allow it ".

"The same thing happened", the statement continues, "regarding the management's indication to attend patients in socio-health centers by professionals with the available resources that were scarce due to the absence in the first months of professional protection means" .

The Clinical Management Unit Ronda Histórica and San Luis is in charge of a population of more than 56,000 people, it is the largest of the units of the Seville District, "maintaining each year with results among the best of the set of Units of the Seville District as a consequence of their commitment, responsibility and adaptation to emerging situations such as the pandemic that affects us, and adopting organizational measures and the necessary means to offer safe care to professionals and citizens. "

The signatories have expressed " their disagreement with the decision of the manager to dismiss who has maintained such high levels of commitment and responsibility with the citizens we serve and with the professionals of the center."

For its part, the Federation of Public Services Employees (FeSP) of UGT Seville has criticized "again the attitude" of the manager of the Seville District. "He continues to proceed in a arrogant manner against the personnel who are not his rope, stopping the director of the Clinical Management Unit of the Ronda Histórica-San Luis in a fulminating manner," the union lamented. For UGT, "this is a professional who has long proven his worth in health management , both in the hospital area and in primary care" and, therefore, has shown his "most energetic rejection" in this type of situation , "that seem to be taken from other times".

"Is this the depoliticization of health management that the Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, is talking about?" Asks the union, assuring that "it is essential to use, for the Andalusian public health system, the worth and proven experience by these professionals "and criticizing that" they are disqualified by criteria of identity, instead of considering and valuing professional capacity ".

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