Carlos Rus, president of the Spanish health association Aspe, announced this Thursday, during an extraordinary meeting of the board of directors that he called yesterday in a surprise manner, that he was leaving his position after 14 years. He will be replaced by the vice president, Herminia Rodríguez, who will lead the process until the elections.
Rus, in conversation with elDiario.es, formulated his decision on a purely personal level: “I have new projects and the need to be closer to my family,” he emphasized. However, some sources close to Aspe – which represents 750 associates from 1,300 private centers – pointed out that the publication of audios from Torrejón in which a director of Ribera Salud orders people to put benefits before the waiting list has generated an earthquake within the employers’ union that brings together the giants of the health sector and has tarnished the confidence of indirect management.
Aspe, which published a note against Pedro Sánchez’s statements in which he questioned Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s health model two weeks ago, however, remained silent for more than 10 days, when El País published the audios that represented a breach in the sector and disrupted the public agenda, in which privatized health was placed as one of the subjects of interest and under the magnifying glass.
Sources close to the employers’ union assure that there is a group that was waiting for another note in which it would distance itself from the practices reported in the audios, that the management would be proactive in defending the honesty of the model, which inevitably implied distancing itself from the words of the leader of Ribera Salud. This note and this communication ultimately did not take place.
The current president of Aspe, who will leave office at the end of the year, insisted to elDiario.es that there is no other reason for his departure by extraordinary call than purely personal and denies that there was a division within Aspe after the audios. However, in the third point of this same call held this Thursday, we feel the impact that political and journalistic news has had on this employer: “Decisions to be made after the recent attacks against private health care”.
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