By Tara Rippin • Published: 17 Jun 2020 • 12:46
A SURGE in appOintments since the lengthy confinement coupled with tests which patients cancelled due to fears of attending consultations during the height of the coronavirus crisis has reportedly left Valencia health service with a serious backlog.
President of the Valencian Society of Family and Community Medicine (SoVaMFiC), María Ángeles Medina, warned “the pandemic led to some patients not attending outpatient clinics and postponing consultations; this has led to a significant number of visits, reviews and tests pending”.
Medina predicts that this “will not be a normal summer, but we cannot catch up in one day”.
She stressed “we will not be able to catch up in less than three months because of the accumulated work as no one from outside will come to do it, since there are no summer reinforcements yet”.
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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