SEVILLA, 27 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy Minister of Health, Miguel Ángel Guzmán, and the general director of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), Diego Vargas, have resigned from their positions, as confirmed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.
Sources from the Ministry have detailed to Europa Press that the vice-minister will be replaced by María Luisa del Moral, a doctor and current Health spokesperson for the PP in the Congress of Deputies. For his part, the managing director of the SAS will be replaced by the manager of the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba, Valle García.
These resignations occur at a time when the Andalusian Government is immersed in a controversy over waiting lists in Andalusia, with more than a million Andalusians waiting on a waiting list for public healthcare, 203,000 people. who are waiting to go to an operating room, and in relation to outpatient consultations, there are 841,000 patients waiting.
Both the opposition and union organizations have criticized this situation, although the sector’s counselor, Catalina García, has stated that “they will continue to grow throughout the country as long as the Ministry of Health does not increase the number of MIR positions.”
