The tides for health bring delays in waiting lists in Andalusia to the Prosecutor’s Office

The white tides for public health have presented in the eight provinces of Andalusia written to the Prosecutor’s Office delegations to intervene in the face of delays in care and the “scandalously long” waiting list times. More than a million Andalusians were waiting last June for either a consultation in a hospital or a surgical intervention, according to data from the Andalusian Health Service (SAS). This represents 12% of the population of the autonomous community.

“This can lead to serious illnesses and, although it may seem hard to believe, it is happening. Let the Prosecutor’s Office analyze the delays“claimed in an intervention before the media the retired doctor and spokesperson for the white tides, Jose Brievaafter delivering the letter. “This situation is extreme,” he later considered. Sebastian Martin Reciofrom the Sevillian tide.

In the text, the tides explain to prosecutors that “the current health waits for care of the population may be causing significant damage to their health.” “These delays, they add, are especially serious in the diagnostic period.since the etiology of the condition is not yet known and it could be serious, and [después también] in the period of application of the appropriate treatment. “Both delays can endanger lives.”

For the tides, it is necessary to take this matter seriously and ask the Prosecutor’s Office in the case of the most relevant delays the following: “A waiting time of a year or more for a diagnosisof a disease that can be vital in its progression or that, in any case, severely limits the patient’s quality of life Could it be illegal?”

“Similar reasoning,” they add in the letter, “can be made with respect to delays in applying the appropriate and timely treatment. Also here, and, especially with the necessary surgical treatments for the solution of many conditions, there are the same risks.

“Scandalously prolonged health waits beyond what is medically reasonable can cause a irreversible progression of the organic alterations causing the diseaseit can even cause the death of the person who is waiting to be diagnosed or treated,” they emphasize.

Deadline guarantee

In the writing, they remember that in Andalusia there are laws that guarantee health care within a specified period. Thus, the tides state, “appointments with the hospital specialist must be within 60 days, diagnostic tests must be performed within 30 days, and surgery, depending on the type, within 90, 120 or 180 days. As has already been indicated, these deadlines, and with increasing frequency, are not met in many cases.

In the recorded text, the tides point to arguments of a different nature, more political. Thus, they express concern “that the current situation of deterioration in Public Health becomes normal,” “That is, that we get used to this dynamic, as if it were normal“.

For the tides, what is happening is an exponential growth of private health insurance, which “do not reach the required levels of quality of caresince there are numerous studies that support the fact that the profit motive acts by lowering quality standards of care.”