There is a great disparity in waiting times for hospitals and specialist consultations, especially bleeding in the case of Lorca, which doubles the national average of 115 days of waiting for a specialist consultation first 65 days versus the national average
Socialist deputy spokesman, Marisol Sanchez, has reported this morning the serious inequality in waiting times for hospitals and specialist consultations, the case of Lorca, which doubles the national average of 115 days of waiting for being especially bleeding first specialist consultation 65 days versus the national average, while in Lorca is where most doctors' offices are closed this summer, along with a whole floor of the hospital with 50 beds and two operating theaters.
The Socialist mayor explained as from the Regional Government are seriously breaking the law that requires them to meet deadlines in patient care, something they know perfectly and with what they are seriously damaging the health of Lorca / as because those delays only serve to delay diagnoses, treatments, tests and procedures and therefore increase risks and costs.
Marisol Sanchez has released the latest data published by the Ministry of Health, for the month of December 2014 and published last August 26, 2015, more than a year late.
Something for the socialist mayor is justified, since the Popular Party intentionally kidnapped this information, since data are devastating and did not want them known with an election in between, this is the transparency of the PP.
Making a comparison with respect to 2008, the data are:
Number of patients waiting for 1st Outpatient:
June 2008 June 2014 December 2014
Cardiology 99 96 170
216 550 609 General Surgery
Dermatology 2707 447 3760
Digestive 36,314,516
Gynecology 236 228 553
Neurology 489 717 568
919 820 1665 Ophthalmology
ENT 452 184 186
Traumatology 1103 2649 2653
Urology 146 768 865
The socialist mayor ended his speech by claiming that the data just offered the waiting lists are sufficient to show that one can not go wrong manages:
Source: PSOE Lorca