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The deputy spokesman of the Socialist Municipal Group in the city of Lorca, Marisol Sanchez Jódar appear today to denounce the alarming increase in waiting lists for specialists of the Health Area III, specifically the Hospital Rafael Méndez de Lorca, describing it as management "serious harm to the health of users and users".

Regarding official data that social responsibility has provided to the media, Sanchez Jódar stressed that "in almost all specialties consultations has increased the number of patients waiting," noting that "is particularly alarming about the seriousness of illness and what they can expect, from June to December 2015, the waiting list for cardiology has increased by almost 50%, from 106 to 200 patients in structural expected for the first visit. "

Sanchez Jodar has warned that "these issues people are dying," ruling that "this statement is not free, because we say so because I have asked that says so", in respect of the request of Lorca family making few days saw as a family died while he was in this situation long wait, also denounced "the Royal Decree 25/2006 set to 50 days the maximum waiting time and, with the data in the table, more than 65% cardiology patients exceed this threshold. "

The socialist mayor has continued to report that this increase "not only occurs in this specialty, but practically in all specialties, and in just six months in General Surgery the increase was 226; in digestive, 158, gynecological 260 more patients, in ophthalmology, 62's, 224 ENT and Urology, 27 more ".

In addition, Sanchez Jodar says the slight improvement seen in consultation only of Dermatology and Neurology, "although these declines are insignificant compared to increases in other specialties."

Marisol Sanchez has reported continued, adding alarming "number of patients who are in a situation of being without assigned date, patients who are out of data waiting lists, amounting to 8,030 patients."

In this regard, special responsibility for health of the Socialists in the city of Lorca denounced the "very poor system citation for specialists Hospital Rafael Mendez," noting "that while the rest of the SMS Hospital, they automatically entered appointment for testing proposed by him in the Hospital Rafael Mendez, they say that "agendas are closed, and spend another day," noting also that "this system also makes in disguise waiting lists since these patients not swell the same. "

Source: PSOE Lorca