Moreno Bonilla publicizes the resignation of the Minister of Health of Andalusia because of the screening disaster | Society | EUROtoday

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, has accepted the resignation offered to him this afternoon by his Health Minister, Rocío Hernández, the principle particular person accused within the scandal over delays in breast most cancers screening. The well-liked chief has been pressured to decide, which he had resisted all through final week, when the circumstances of affected girls started to emerge, given the scale of a disaster, which haven’t stopped rising and which for the primary time have overwhelmed Moreno’s capability for response and resilience, since he got here to the autonomous Government nearly eight years in the past.

“He has managed with his mistakes and successes, but with honesty and dedication beyond doubt,” stated Moreno, who has tried to justify how difficult it’s to handle the Andalusian Health System, the biggest in Spain. “It is understandable that in such a complex system there are errors, incidents. The difficult thing to understand is that it was the affected people themselves who had to alert us to the problem,” acknowledged the Andalusian president, who has additionally introduced a profound renovation of the well being system. “We will audit everything that needs to be audited and we will change everything that we detect that does not work in public health.”

The Andalusian president dominated out his dismissal per week in the past. He urged his counselor to “work hard to locate the errors,” “dedicate herself body and soul to her work” and “work more effectively,” however she rejected the change as a result of, as she defined, “a management crisis should not be opened” within the division, the one with the biggest finances of all, “nor is it for “ups and downs, changes and modifications.”

Per week later, nonetheless, the succession of complaints to the Prosecutor’s Office, each from civil organizations and political events, the announcement of one other lawsuit by girls victims of breast most cancers, however above all of the trickle of testimonies from sufferers who’ve developed the tumor in these months with out having identified the results of the screening or who’re distressed as a result of they have no idea if their screening was adverse or could possibly be uncertain, have made the state of affairs unsustainable. An instance of this indignation was seen this afternoon when hundreds of individuals gathered in entrance of the headquarters of the Andalusian Health Service, to protest the response of the Board to the complaints of those girls, to the purpose of shouting the resignation of Moreno, one thing that had by no means been heard within the a number of demonstrations in favor of public well being known as by Marea Blanca.

Moreno started his intervention by explaining the measures that his Government has adopted on this final week via a shock plan that was offered this morning by the spokesperson of the Board and never by the Minister of Health, absent from public roads since final Friday she assured that she was not going to resign “because it was the easy thing to do.” The president recalled that every one girls with a uncertain analysis will probably be reviewed earlier than November 30, with the incorporation of 119 new professionals, most of them radiologists, who will work within the evenings and weekends, due to the injection of 12 million euros.