• Meeting with representatives of health emergency transport unions
• The PP denounced two months ago that the Junta had put out to tender a type of ambulance without assistance that violates the legislation
• The unions have submitted letters to the public company 061, which continues without answering them.
The spokesperson for Health of the Popular Group in the Parliament of Andalusia, Catalina García, has demanded that the Minister of Health, Marina Álvarez, clarify "immediately" the "scandal" that arose after revealing that the Ministry of Health had put out to tender a type of ambulance without medical assistance (called A1EE in the specifications). This type of medical transport vehicle does not appear contemplated in the legislation (RDL 836/2012) and in the opinion of the PP, "it evades the law because it avoids taking emergency technicians".
The alert has also mobilized the representatives of the health emergency transport unions, who have written on several occasions to the Public Emergency Company 061 to request information, without receiving a response from the Andalusian government.
Catalina García, accompanied by the deputy for Seville Jaime Raynaud, held a meeting with representatives of the Andalusian Union of Wardens and Drivers (Saceco); Emersan Health Emergencies; and the platform of Sanitary Emergency Technicians TES Españoles Unidos.
García informed the unions that the PP has requested the suspension of all ambulance award competitions "until they clarify with technical and economic reports if currently the emergency and emergency transport service offered by the SAS to Andalusians is safe and quality.
Jaime Raynaud asked the Board to report on the complaints of ambulances that have been providing their services in Extremadura since March despite the fact that the award contract is to provide service in Seville. "We are very concerned that ambulances that should be attending to Sevillians in case of emergencies are not available because they are in another community."
The representatives of the unions asked the Board, on the one hand, to replace the specific bag of orderlies and drivers of type B and C ambulances with that of emergency health technicians, to thus comply with the Royal Decree that establishes the technical characteristics, medical facilities and staffing of medical road transport vehicles.
In addition, they denounced that what the Board is doing is a "privatization of functions" by outsourcing the services of the conductor warders in Andalusia; and they recalled that the Board does not recognize emergency health technicians as health personnel.
Likewise, they claimed that, like any operational group at the pre-hospital level, they must work on road assistance with another colleague, in order to provide the best service to the patient.
Union representatives wondered if the president of the Board is aware that "she is allowing illegal non-assistance ambulances to be used in the urgent transport network." They stressed that the objective should be for patients "to be cared for in the best of situations and by professionals", not by companions.
