Mallorca health care gets €1.2m for medicines
Mallorca and the rest of the Balearic Islands are set to receive €1.2 million for health-care and transplant programmes after Spain’s Council of Ministers approved the funding on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health put forward the allocation. It will support better medicine care for people with chronic illness, frailty or several prescriptions.
The money can also fund efforts to stop medicines that are no longer needed, expand electronic prescriptions and strengthen drug-safety monitoring. Other eligible work includes tackling antibiotic resistance, improving plasma self-sufficiency and access to high-impact treatments. Health professionals can receive continuing training on the safe and effective use of medicines, care quality, health alerts and the assessment of medicines and health technologies.
Separate support for donors and transplants
A separate national €3.4 million fund for bone marrow donation and umbilical cord blood will send €48,880 to the Balearic Islands. It can pay for information campaigns, donor testing, accreditation for collection and transplant centres, checks on cord-blood units held in public banks and measures to recruit new donors.
Another €700,000 from the Ministry of Health will strengthen quality and safety in organ retrieval and transplants, as well as information systems run by the National Transplant Organisation. Its distribution takes account of organ transfers between Spain’s autonomous communities in 2025 and follow-up case figures updated in 2024.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com