The Socialist Group has announced that it will "request the immediate appearance" of the acting counselor of Health, Presidency, and Emergency of the Andalusian Government, Antonio Sanz (PP-A), before the Parliament of Andalusia "to give full explanations of what happened and how it is possible that 400 false cancer diagnoses have been communicated to 400 people in Malaga".
This was conveyed this Friday by the general secretary of the PSOE of Malaga, Josele Aguilar, in a press conference in front of the Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital in Malaga, where he censured that "the Government of Juanma Moreno has failed again in what cannot be failed", in reference to "early cancer detection".
After recalling the problems already detected in the breast cancer screening program, Aguilar focused on what happened with "400 people" in Malaga to whom "it has been notified that they may have, may have, or may be developing colon cancer".
The socialist leader defended that "this is not a technical error", but "enormous health negligence", as in his opinion happened with the breast screening. He questioned that "now it is intended to say that the problem was contamination with disinfectant liquid, cleaner of the samples", and added that "we also know for a week that in the Comarcal Hospital of Axarquía expired material has been used to perform health samples, clinical analyses, with the possibility that false diagnoses have also occurred in those samples that were being carried out with expired reagents, also by instruction of the Management" of the center.
Aguilar also lashed out at "the way of addressing the breast cancer screening crisis" by the president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, who decided to place Antonio Sanz at the head of the Ministry of Health —after the resignation of Rocío Hernández—, "a politician who has management capacity" in "political crises", because, in his opinion, the objective of his appointment was "to preserve and save the image" of the head of the Andalusian Executive.
Along the same lines, he has described what happened in the constitutive session of the XIII legislature of the Andalusian Parliament as a "comic opera", in which the former Minister of Health Jesús Aguirre was re-elected as president, at the proposal of the PP-A. The PSOE-A considers him "principally responsible for the breast cancer screening crisis", given that he was in charge of the Ministry "at the time" this crisis occurred.
The provincial leader of the PSOE has also lashed out at the "farce" and the "feigned disagreement" that, in his opinion, PP-A and Vox staged by not closing a prior pact to configure the Parliament's Bureau, and has predicted that "in the coming days they will reach an agreement" to govern Andalusia, "as they have reached" an agreement in other territories. He has also predicted that the popular party will end up accepting the "infamous national priority" that Vox demands to include in its agreements.
Aguilar has denounced that Juanma Moreno "is not concerned with the real priorities of Andalusians", such as "protecting their health", and that his true "priority" is "to save his seat in San Telmo" as president of the Board. He has insisted on attributing to the leader of the PP-A "great negligence" in the management of "Andalusian public health".
For all these reasons, he has demanded "answers, transparency" from the PP-A Executive, and that they detail "what solutions are going to be implemented" after what happened. He has announced that the Socialist Group is going to "request the immediate appearance of Minister Sanz in the Parliament of Andalusia so that he can give full explanations of what has happened" with those "400 false cancer diagnoses for 400 people in Malaga", and also about "what has happened with those expired reagents that are being used in the Hospital Comarcal de la Axarquía and that have been reported to the Prosecutor's Office by a union".
Finally, Aguilar has asked "where are those measures that were announced" by the Board for "hiring new personnel" and "protocols with which the cancer screening problems were going to be solved", and has demanded that they be specified and applied to avoid new failures in early detection programs.