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Over 31,000 citizens await intervention in Osakidetza and Osakidetza

  • In Navarre at the end of 2021 there were 6,531 people on the waiting list for a “non-serious” intervention and at the end of 2022 8,206. 21,701 patients in Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa in 2021 and 23,029 in 2022. In both cases, waiting lists have been increased.

05 April 2023 - 10:31
Last updated: 23:59
Zarata mediatikoz beteriko garai nahasiotan, merkatu logiketatik urrun eta irakurleengandik gertu dagoen kazetaritza beharrezkoa dela uste baduzu, ARGIA bultzatzera animatu nahi zaitugu. Geroz eta gehiago gara, jarrai dezagun txikitik eragiten.

A total of 31,235 people expected, in December 2022, to call from Osakidetza or Osasunbidea for “non-serious surgery.” The data have been provided by the Ministry of Health, according to Berria, and show that the waiting lists have been extended in the last year.

Between 2021 and 2022, an increase of 1,675 people was expected, while in Osakidetza 1,328 patients increased. The average waiting time for an intervention in the public service of Navarra is 85 days versus 73 days of the CAPV.

Patients with plastic surgery have to wait the longest time: 164 days in Navarra and 134 in the CAPV. The second specialty waiting for more time is traumatology: 102 days in Osasunbidea and 89 days in Osakidetza. A total of 9,040 people expected a traumatology operation in Hego Euskal Herria, a specialty that has the longest lists.

In addition, before the intervention, patients should also wait many days to refer to the specialist. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the average number of days in Osakidetza is 99 and 48 days in Osakidetza.


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