Hospital Waitlists Shrink, But Almeria Locals Left Without Answers

ACCORDING to a June 2025 study of Almeria’s nationalist healthcare system, a affirmative inclination has been unveiled pinch regards to nan waiting lists successful nan region, pinch a alteration successful some surgical and outpatient consultations. The shift, driven by nan Health Guarantee Plan of nan Andalucian Regional Government, reflects a simplification successful nan full number of patients waiting for care, astir 100,000 successful nan full province. However, nan numbers whitethorn beryllium covering up a larger healthcare rumor successful Almeria.

For nan first six months of nan year, nan surgical waiting lists successful Almeria person decreased from 17,954 astatine nan extremity of 2024 to 16,589 successful June. The number of outpatient consultations decreased from 87,751 to 83,200, successful nan aforesaid period. This information comes from nan province’s 3 awesome hospitals, 1 successful nan capital, 1 successful Poniente, and 1 successful Levante. The Poniente hospital, of nan three, has nan highest waiting database for outpatient consultations, pinch 33,613 patients and an mean waiting clip of 153 days for a first appointment.

In nan Almeria province, nan Torrecárdenas University Hospital has nan highest waiting database for outpatient consultations, pinch 8,680 patients and an mean waiting clip of 268 days.

This follows nan preamble of 140 caller healthcare workers successful nan region of Almeria, boding good for nan patients and nan understaffed hospitals alike.

But do nan numbers bespeak nan reality of Almeria residents?

These numbers, which successful erstwhile years had been increasing, person go unchangeable this year. The statistic show an wide betterment successful nan waiting clip and a alteration successful nan waiting lists; however, that is not nan acquisition of each Almeria residents. Some section expatriates, reacting to nan news, person lamented that though nan region of Almeria is experiencing a wide betterment successful waiting lists and waiting times, their section aesculapian centres person been slow to respond.

One Facebook personification claimed that her husband, diagnosed pinch cancer, had to move to a backstage infirmary since nan nationalist hospitals were taking excessively agelong to respond to his urgent needs. Another Facebook user, successful consequence to nan news, claimed that aft waiting much than a twelvemonth (16 months) for a dermatological assignment successful Huercal-Overa, nan infirmary yet called her backmost pinch a telephone appointment. “Now I don’t cognize really they train their dermatologists successful Spain but they must person magical powers if they tin analyse my tegument complete nan telephone erstwhile I’ve had melanoma treated present already!” nan personification joked dryly.

“I person terrible gastric/bowel problems,” said a 3rd Facebook user. “[M]y médico has tried everything, thing useful truthful referred maine for a consultant/specialist. In November it will beryllium a year, still nary assignment successful show aliases relief.”

Amidst each nan conflicting information, it’s clear that though Almeria is slow showing betterment successful their aesculapian system, much action and much drastic alteration is needed successful bid to meet nan demands of its residents, support nationalist wellness standards, and make judge those who request it are offered attraction arsenic soon arsenic possible.