The Generalitat Health Ministry He recorded 206 claims related to the right of linguistic option in Catalan health last year. This has been reported by the Minister of Health, Olga Picéin a parliamentary response to the Vox group to which this newspaper has had access and in which it recalls that «in Catalonia, the public health system serves eight million people and its users have the right to be treated in the official language that they prefer to always prioritize the linguistic use that best saves their health ».
In his answer, Pané points out that the data is provisional and that, for the moment, only the total number of linguistic claims are available but they do not yet have Segregated data about which were due to lack of attention in Catalan or in Spanish. These complaints are added to the 700 registered between the years 2021-2023, so that the total number of claims recorded in the last four years amounts to 906.
According to the data provided in parliamentary headquarters, the Minister of Health, Olga rich at the end of 2024, of the total complaints registered between 2021-2023, a total of 279 were for not attending in Catalan. The majority were located, according to the counselor in her response to Vox, in the great hospitals of Barcelona as the Clinic and Vall d’Hebronwith 11 claims each. Pané recalled to the media that linguitic complaints are only 0.5% of the total that are received in the health system.
Apart from claims related to Catalan, the Minister said that in that three -year interval there have also been 70 complaints demanding a Oral attention in Spanish language and 22 for the clinical history in this language to be delivered. The rest of the claims are for the Aranés, the French (in the Cross -Boarding Hospital of La Cerdanña) and the administrative documentation.
Likewise, according to the data provided in parliamentary headquarters by Olga, I rose, over the last six years, the Generalitat has opened nine files Due to problems related to health. The health inspection authority intervenes when it suspects that a linguistic problem has been able to have a healthcare impact. Pané was limited in December to affirm that they have imposed sanctions both for the claims of Catalan and of the Castilian, but eluded to give more details.
The deputy of Vox in the Parliament, María García Fusterconsiders «an aberration the demand of the level of Catalan to the toilets. It is a real linguistic dictatorship and are creating a problem where there is not always. «Doctors and patients have communicated in the language in which they were most comfortable without this being a conflict. Right now it is the Government who puts his ideological bundle within the hospitals to face the toilets with the patients, ”adds the deputy. “From Vox we will continue to denounce this political maneuver within hospitals, which all it does is worsen the quality of care for the confrontation that creates between toilets and patients,” he concludes.
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