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Three-Year-Old at Risk of Losing Leg Among Patients Downgraded in Hospital Waiting-List Scandal

Summary by Euro Weekly News
Documents show a Madrid hospital downgraded 57 patients’ surgical priority without telling their doctors, including a girl feared at risk of losing a leg.

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Health Advisor Fatima Matute denies the alteration of the data and links the complaints to a previous disciplinary file of a surgeon.

Center

The Minister of Health, Mónica García, asks the communities to now approve "new transparency criteria"

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Two heads of the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital changed the severity of the patients waiting for a surgical intervention from a preferential to a normal category, which means reaching waiting times of up to nine months.The doctors advance a “permanent conflict” and plan new stoppages by the Marco Statute The Ramón y Cajal public hospital in Madrid modified the severity of the patients waiting for surgery to improve the data on their waiting l…

·Madrid, Spain
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The Community of Madrid argues that waiting lists are drawn up on the basis of clinical criteria

·Barcelona, Spain
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Ramón y Cajal chiefs ordered the priority of people waiting for an operation to be changed computerically, behind the backs of the surgeons, according to internal documents

·Madrid, Spain
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El Pais broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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