Overview
- Provincial prosecutors have archived nine of fifteen criminal inquiries into alleged failures in breast cancer screening after finding no signs of a crime.
- Five complaints remain open, with three in Seville and two in Málaga, as prosecutors weigh whether to take any of them to court or close them as well.
- In Almería, prosecutors filed a separate court complaint over a different suspected medical negligence involving the same patient, outside the screening program.
- In February, the regional prosecutor’s office closed three complaints against five senior health officials and sent the rest to provincial offices for individual review.
- The regional government replaced its health chief, began hiring 705 staff with 500 already on board, and introduced a single-visit protocol that bundles mammogram, ultrasound, and biopsy to cut wait times, while the PP says the case closures undercut opposition claims.