Sagunto council unanimously demands urgent reinforcement of Sagunto Hospital
All parties on the city council approved a motion on 3 July demanding that the Regional Health Ministry hire more staff, cut waiting lists and replace worn-out equipment at Sagunto Hospital.
A motion passed unanimously — PP and Vox included — at Sagunto's July plenary session urges the Valencian Regional Health Ministry (Conselleria de Sanitat) to reinforce the Sagunto Health Department, covering twelve municipalities across Camp de Morvedre and Alto Palancia. The cross-party agreement is notable: the same groups that voted against or abstained on the regional investment motion the previous day backed this one without reservation.
The initiative came from the Retirees and Pensioners Federation of CCOO — Spain's largest trade union, with over one million members — through its local branch, and was jointly submitted by PSPV-PSOE and EU-Unides Podem. The trigger was a public demonstration outside the hospital on 5 June, protesting the deterioration of public healthcare in the area.
The motion sets out four concrete demands: urgent staffing increases and vacancy cover; reduced waiting times by prioritising in-house resources over private clinic referrals; replacement of deteriorated equipment; and recruitment of geriatric specialists — a longstanding unfulfilled demand. It also calls for the hospital switchboard service to be kept intact, as a key emergency coordination point. According to Sagunto City Council's official statement.