theMeritxell hospital will concentrate all oncology services on floor -3 from March 2027, when adaptation work is expected to be completed. This is what he assured yesterday Minister of Health, Helena Masas part of the 13th edition of the Walk Against Cancerwhich gathered around 1,300 people and sold 1,200 shirts to help the patients suffering from the disease and their families. “It is a priority”, he stressed But, remembering the resources and projects of the Government in this area, both in prevention and in matters of care and support for people who have to go to Barcelona or Toulouse to have a treatment.
The Minister of Health, on the left, at the start of yesterday’s walk.
Precisely, regarding the new facilities, he emphasized that “we are working so that they have them better infrastructures and that consultations and chemotherapy treatments are concentrated thereRegarding precision oncology, he pointed out that, through the tumor committee, work is being done to incorporate professionals and so that people can benefit from it. On the other hand, the minister said that she wants to adjust the financial support for patients who have to travel abroad to be treated for cancer, increasing the aid from 90 to 100% in some rates.
“We work to have the best infrastructures and that consultations and treatments are concentrated there”
In relation to prevention, the ministry is finalizing an analysis with the collaboration of the Catalan Institute of Oncology to screen heavy smokers for lung cancer. But he explained that in the coming weeks this task is expected to be completed, so that by 2027 the selection phase of the recipients could already begin.
“We will always agree on any improvement for the patient”, he declared president of the Association Against Cancer, Josep Saraviain relation to these actions, and defended that there is room to promote early detection programs in other tumors. He also made other requests such as the radiotherapy or a children’s unitwarning that there may be eight cases a year of children with cancer. “We must consider a series of advances in the oncological aspect”claimed Saravia, who also explained that they are starting several campaigns to ask for more financial support, with the aim of serve patients. In fact, the organization has expanded its workforce from one to three people. “We are trying to do more things so that people feel helped”, he replied.
