THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 2629 Issue No. 1991
31 Aug - 6 Sept 2023
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THE average delay for op erations at Denia hospital is less than officially pub lished, and should be blamed on a computer er ror, Marina Salud has said. The concessionaire for the hospital stated that the figure is actually 85 days. This figure contra dicts the Ministry of Health’s published data of 105 days for the month of June. According to Marina Salud’s manager, Javier Palau, this error was re ported to the Ministry of Health, which has refused to rectify it. “There was a discrepan cy in the figure, of which the Ministry of Health was alerted,” said Dr Javier Palau, managing director of the Denia hospital health department. “This is due to a techni cal problem in the loading of data, and we are work ing in a bilateral way to correct it. “In this sense, we hope to end the summer with an average delay of less than 80 days and the year with 60, a figure much lower than the average for the Valencian Communi ty,” Palau said. The hospi tal said that in the first half of 2023, surgical activ
Credit: Ribera Salud
HOSPITAL WAITING LISTS
DENIA HOSPITAL: There has been an increase in the number of surgeries performed.
ity was 10 per cent higher than the same period in the previous year. According to the data, 1,964 operations were scheduled, and by July 31 of this year, 2,149 were conducted. In July alone, there was a 24 per cent increase in the number of surgeries
performed compared to July 2022 804 surgeries
as opposed to 649 last year.
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