Geli dismisses the managing director of ICS

The Department of Health has informed today that Francesc Jose Maria will be replaced at the head of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), but has not revealed the name of his replacement. Marina Geli CONSELLERA

To propose the replacement of Francesc Jose Maria at the next meeting of the board of the ICS, which will take place on October 9, and the decision taken at this meeting must be approved subsequently by the government Catalan.

In their communique, Health has ensured that the replacement of Francesc Jose Maria is part of the "process of rearranging some senior positions" which is carried out in the department.

In their communique, Health does not refer to any specific reason to replace Jose Maria Francesc as director-manager of ICS, so that CiU has asked the department to "clarify his dismissal."

CiU, in another communique, said that the dismissal occurred last Wednesday, October 1, but has not made official until today, and has framed the end of the term "chaos" of the Department of Health.

Joy de Catalunya in Metges

The union

Metges de Catalunya has been "welcomed" the decision by the department and believes that the cessation of Francesc Jose Maria "is the logical consequence of the failure of its management " at the head of the ICS.

To this union, the management of Fransces Jose Maria has been marked by authoritarianism and the constant quest of the conflict with the physicians' as demonstrated with the decision to maintain the forced retirement of doctors at 65 ".

Another of the decisions of Francesc Jos Mara, to extend the opening hours of the CAP (Primary Care Center), led a strike of medical centers in Barcelona last February.