UMH Rector Accuses TSJ of 'Making Untrue Statements' in Medicine Ruling

"I sent a letter to Mazón certifying that the agreement remains unchanged." UMH Rector Juan José Ruiz defended the collaboration agreement following the President's response, which will allow the sharing of Medicine practices between its students and those of UA, while accusing the TSJ of "making untrue statements" in the ruling.

This is the reason, "matters of coherence and legality," that led him to appeal the judicial verdict supporting the implementation of the Medicine degree at the University of Alicante. "It cannot be left like this," he said, as the request to eradicate these studies from the Elche campus was dismissed.

In the appeal "we have stated things and there (in the ruling) they say they are so," Ruiz also noted, emphasizing that this new appeal aims for Justice to support them. "It must be clear that they are as we have stated," he added, stressing that the TSJ's resolution could have a "national impact" regarding "how a university degree can be approved or not."

Regarding whether the TSJ will side with them this time, UMH Rector expressed that the Medicine studies at the University of Alicante will not disappear. "The degree has been implemented, is being implemented, and will be developed," he stated, recalling the commitment with the Generalitat during the Botànic era and recent episodes with Mazón.

"Before the ruling, we committed to the Generalitat to ensure teaching for Medicine students in any way, with a shared campus or degree, as discussed since 2019 with the Botànic or any form of collaboration," explained the UMH Rector.

Despite the recently filed appeal, Ruiz reiterated that "the interest is to ensure teaching for Medicine students in the province," and his stance—despite returning to the legal battle—remains "in the same situation as we agreed in the meeting": authorizing UA to conduct practices in already agreed public hospitals in exchange for implementing the Nursing degree at UMH.