The Department of Health, Marciano Gómez, has sent a letter to the community pharmacies of the Valencian Community to try to reassure them before him delay that they will suffer when charge the invoices Due to liquidity problems. In the case of Alicante Botics, the debt amounts to about 50 million euros.
“The Generalitat guarantees that it will be re -established Regular monthly bill payment to the pharmacy offices from the month of julio”, Said the regional head while insisted on“Require the Government of Spain Urgent activation of the FLA (Autonomic Liquidity Fund) Extra to face the payment corresponding to the month of Maywhich should be paid on June 30 ”.
In addition, he has guaranteed the Consell's commitment to pay pharmacies the invoice they should collect on June 30 As soon as the extra flax is available y reduce the deadline of the month delay If the funds arrive before.
He also affirms that the Department of Health has committed ” speed up the necessary procedures To assume Payment of interest that according to law correspond, as a sign of the firm commitment of the Consell to the sustainability of the pharmaceutical network and the protection of the health system ”.
“Unacceptable economic asphyxiation”
Gómez has denounced in recent days the “unacceptable economic suffocation of the Government of Spain to the Generalitat for the non -approval of the extraordinary flash for the first time in twelve years, that will prevent the arrival in July from the Community of 1.9 billion euros essential so that the Autonomous Administration can pay the fundamental public services suppliers ”.
The Minister, who transferred the situation of the Generalitat to the Minister of Health in the last Interterritorial Council of the National Health Systemhe regrets that “this Pure Tacticism Sánchez government politic unfair underfinanciación of the Valencian Community. “
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Marciano Gómez also recalls that the Department of Health has had to face the payment from pending invoices of the previous legislature by value of More than 800 million euros.
Therefore, he requests “the support of all political groups to claim from the Government of Spain what Law and justice corresponds to the citizens of the Valencian Community”.
Recognition to pharmacies
The Minister has transferred to pharmacies its recognition to the “Incnimable work they do” and highlighted the role of community pharmacy as Strategic Pilar of the Health System. “His daily work guarantees access to medicines, pharmacotherapeutic monitoring and personalized care for chronic, polymedicated and elderly patients.”
Marciano Gómez has stressed that the Ministry recognizes “the essential role that Pharmacists perform Community as proximity health agents, especially in the municipalities with lower population densitywhere in many cases they constitute the only available health resource. ”
In this regard, he remembers that for 2025 he is working to implement various autonomic measures to support rural pharmacies, such as Time flexibility, establishment of pharmaceutical kit and home delivery programs of medications, with the objective of guaranteeing equity in access to medicines and healthcare continuity throughout the territory.
Therefore, from the Ministry the central government is called so that Activate the extra flash with the urgency that requires the situation, and “the will to continue working with the official schools of Pharmacists and the whole sector is reiterated to consolidate a more fair, resilient and focused health model in people “.
Gómez informed the representatives of the Professional Pharmacy Associations that the Generalitat “is carrying out An enormous treasury management effort For expediting and regularizing payments to a sector such as the pharmacist, which is a priority for health care to the citizens of the Valencian Community. All this, despite the difficulties involved in ordinary management, chronic infinance suffered by the Valencian Community, now aggravated by the non -approval of the extraordinary flash by the Government of Spain. ”
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The Generalitat receives 165 million less
The Autonomous Department has stressed that, additionally, the lack of approval of the General State Budgets and the non -update of the deliveries on account of 2025 until next September assumes that the Generalitat is receiving each month, since January, 165 million less of those that correspond this year of the financing system.
“These two circumstances that depend on the Government of Spain are causing serious liquidity problems In the autonomous administration that prevent the punctual payment of their debt with suppliers, “have criticized the Ministry.
Sectors affected by government non -payment
On April 30 (last public data), the commercial debt of the Generalitat Rozaba 1,767 million euros. 83 % of that debt affects public healthfollowed by SSocial ervicios (5 %) and education (5 %), according to the department of Marciano Gómez.
Among the sectors most affected by the lack of liquidity derived from the blocking of the extra Fla Hospital and Pharmacy by Recipe; Companies suppliers of health products and services; essential services such as cleaning, safety, maintenance or transport; Concerts with residences or academies and training centers.
The Valencian Government has been warning since last December to the Ministry of Finance of the consequences that the non -approval of the extraordinary flash would have to finance the excess deficit of the preceding exercise. During the last twelve years, that authorization of the extraordinary flaspe has always occurred in December and, the payment of it, in the months of July (75 %) and December (25 %).
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