The judicial investigation of the government of the Junta of Andalusia for the handpicked allocation of almost 300 million euros to private health care on the basis of a repealed law and the entry of the anti-prosecution corruption accelerated the news concerning the actions of the Junta. in health contracts. But in a more daily matter, linked to the large number of patients on the waiting list, the management of Moreno’s Executive has not gone badly, at least on the judicial level, in the White Tides’ attempt to ensure that the Council consciously assumes a certain responsibility. 200,000 Andalusians are waiting to be operated on, which is the second highest average delay in the country (169 days), according to the latest official figure.
As SevillaelDiario.es learned, the public prosecutor’s office rejected the complaint filed by Marea Blanca Sevilla last Thursday, October 17, when, in unison, they filed eight complaints at the headquarters of the eight provincial prosecutor’s offices in accordance with the forecasts of the Andalusian Coordinator of White Tides. According to the same sources, this is the only official response from representatives of the Public Ministry, in a negative sense, to the assertions of the complainants, publicly supported especially by the Socialist Parliamentary Group, which accuses the health department. of the Moreno government.
The citizen group asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office if it would not be illegal for almost two million public health users in Andalusia to wait for an operation, an appointment with the specialist and a diagnostic test, knowing that in the autonomous community there are laws guaranteeing deadlines for each process which “in recent years have not been respected on several occasions”. Mareas Blancas provided figures for each province and examples of patients who, due to the delay in care, suffered significant medical consequences.
Some of the cases mentioned were published by this newspaper, such as the conviction of the Andalusian Health Service for having taken two years to diagnose lung cancer, or the conviction of the Andalusian Public Health Service for having delayed eight months in diagnosing a fracture of the ankle. “It is very obvious that a person cannot take more than a year to be diagnosed because, if it ultimately turns out to be a serious illness, the delay due to lost time can lead to irreversible progression of the disease. illness resulting in disability or even death,” they say. denounce the White Tides in their writings.
An ILP and a demonstration
“Waiting for a diagnosis or treatment in health, scandalously prolonged beyond what is medically reasonable, can cause an irreversible progression of the organic alterations at the origin of the disease, and can even lead to the death of the person waiting for it. ‘be diagnosed or treated’, we summarize. in the document presented in Seville, which incorporated the figures from June of this year, the same date as the last update published by the Ministry of Health and which also raised a question from the CCOO Andalucía which, also with data in hand , recently stated that “Andalusia has the worst waiting lists in all of Spain”.
The defense of public health by the Coordinadora Mareas Blancas Andaluzas also involves the processing in Parliament of a Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) with which it commits to “100% public health” in Andalusia, presenting 40,000 signatures of support although as they declared in their rally last week at the gates of Parliament, they hope to “obtain many more as a demonstration of the support of Andalusian citizens”.
In this sense, next Sunday, the Andalusian Coordinator herself has already called for demonstrations in seven provinces next Sunday, November 17 (in Cádiz, it will be the day before -Saturday, November 16-) under the slogan “Move for your health” .
