The Popular Party in Granada city council will take a motion to ask the city’s socialist government team at the general municipal plenary session in January reactivate the health field ofPersistently, since, after the state of alarm was declared as a result of the health crisis due to Covid-19, it has been forgotten.
The councilor of the PP Carlos Ruiz Cosano has revealed this morning Skills that the City Council has in connection with the mandatory compliance with the norms and sanitary plans, which undergo “sanitary control of the environment”; sanitary control of industries, activities and services, transport, noise and vibration; sanitary control of buildings and places of human habitation and coexistence, in particular food centers, hotels and residential centers, among others; and the sanitary control of the distribution and supply of food, drink and other products”.
In this sense, Ruiz Cosano has defended the “relevance and importance of municipal health services” and has given as an example “Work to avoid sanitary difficulties relating to industry and commerce of food products, thanks to the action taken by the health sector in the city of Granada in the listeriosis crisis of the summer of 2019.
However, the popular mayor regrets that, “despite daily actions in the control, monitoring, surveillance and inspection of health, educational, hotel, retail, supermarket, and companies in the field of food and complementary services, not recognized enough And it seems to have fallen into oblivion. Thus, Carlos Ruiz Cosano has urged the team of the socialist government of Granada, together with its mayor Paco Cuenca, to recognize the performance of the health sector of the Granada City Council; improving the conditions and technical equipment of the municipal laboratory with the aim of improving the analysis of water and food samples; recover the segment within this health sector that played a fundamental role in the dissemination of public health culture, especially among school children; Provide these services with a budget item in the 2023 accounts; and promoting scientific and professional updating plans for officers and technicians in the health sector”.
