Waiting lists Record - Healing the PP is leaving us

Record waiting lists: to be operated in Spain have to wait an average of 115 days

• By  Editorial Staff ,  postdigital.es
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• June 23rd, 2017
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The average time delay to undergo non-emergency surgery has not decreased, the average is 115 days, 20 more than six months ago and 26 more than last year, as the latest report waiting lists published by the Ministry of health, Social Services and Equality, which also shows a greater delay in getting an appointment with a medical specialist, which stands at 72 days on average (24% compared to 2015).

This is the highest number of patients since records began, more even than in June 2013, in the midst of economic crisis, when public health accumulated a total of 583,612 patients waiting for surgery, with an average delay 101 days.

However, this increase should be assessed taking into account that for the first time included data Catalunya, which is also the most populous community on the waiting list.

By specialty, orthopedic surgery is the most patients have waiting (175,257), followed Ophthalmology (125,638), and General and Digestive Surgery (115,610); However, interventions that are more there to wait Plastic Surgery (189 days), Neurosurgery (171) and Traumatology (143).

As regards the average delay time to see a specialist, data through December 2016 show an average wait of 72 days, 14 more than in December 2015; the average is 45 per 1,000 inhabitants, and what is more demand Ophthalmology, Traumatology and dermatology.

Healing the PP is leaving us

And that they say that the crisis has passed. 

We are at the end of the tunnel. Goodness! Because if healing is as it is, we should imagine what it would be if this country had not overcome the crisis and not grow nearly 3% GDP.

They sing data. 

However much they insist on repeating that growth is a record, we have overcome the crisis, that unemployment continues to decline, the truth is that inequality continues to increase caritas (which does not seem suspicious or highly critical NGOs with government) just said that is impoverishing the pobreza--, and is weakening our health.

Increasingly, our health shows alarming signs of weakness. It was certainly up to six years, our great asset of the welfare state. Today, the situation depletes at times. Just follow the official data that we receive.

Despite the recovery that both recall the peperos, we find alarming situations. 

For example, appointments for the family doctor today given as mean a wait seven to ten days. I already tell how basic diseases Left alone, if turn comes when we are already cured or, if worse, having to go to the ER.

The average waiting time for also been extended medical specialists. It has gone from 58 72 days of2015 2016. And surgical waiting lists have gone from 86 115 days in a year. 

We are in a tailspin fall, without appearing to the executive pepero show no interest in changing the trend. 

Moreover, it seems clear that his contempt for the public health system is complementary to its favoritism toward private health, since it seems that the only solution they have in mind is that patients lists of saturated wait, if they have means, pass to private clinics. 

That seems to be the remedy they have to decrease those lists worsening every day.

And it is clear, today we have 9,500 fewer workers in healthcare, and no sign of change. 

Investments will look like-and say it is demagogia--, for example, for increasing the defense budget by 30% this year in order to fill happiness to Mrs. Cospedal.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Dolors Montserrat, which we only know some regrettable statements, goes unnoticed and lost in misery and cuts that follow in his department. 

Yes, enduring the rain and defending the indefensible. 

And it is that the data are so clear that only the lies and manipulation to cover his unfortunate management is worsening our Public Health at top speed left. 

By the way, company health minister's family has increased its debt to finance 87%, further evidence of how private companies are supported health while decreasing human and financial resources in Public Health. 

And do not blame it on the autonomous regions, because the demands from the deficit are forcing these merciless cuts.

When some will think it is the right time to take the PP government? 

Do not expect much, not going to be that we do not get, and we stay anchored in one of those waiting lists PP-pleasing.

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