Funding for plans to expand Torrevieja hospital has been slashed in the draft version of the regional government’s 2024 budget, according to a campaign group defending public healthcare.
At a protest they staged outside the hospital on Tuesday, the Plataforma por la Sanidad 100% Pública cited figures from the new Partido Popular (PP)-Vox administration’s spending plan which cut the €11.1 million that had been allocated by the previous left-wing coalition government for 2023-2024, to just €1.1M for maintenance.
And plans to extend two health centres in the Torrevieja hospital area department, Guardamar and Orihuela Costa, have been pushed back two years to 2027, they claimed.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News
