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Osakidetza Begins Mass Hiring Exams at BEC With 101,693 Candidates

Cooling, water and extra emergency teams are in place to keep the scheduled weekend exams for nine major job categories running.

Overview

  • The public hiring process (OPE) opened on Friday, June 19, with roughly 101,693 people registered to sit the first wave of exams this weekend at the Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC).
  • The full OPE offers 5,425 statutory posts including 2,160 newly created roles, and 3,764 of those posts are covered by the nine largest categories being tested this weekend.
  • Osakidetza has denied false notices claiming a Sunday nursing exam would be canceled because of a heatwave and has confirmed the tests will go ahead as scheduled with air conditioning, water points and reinforced emergency services on site.
  • Organisers are running complex access and support measures at the BEC, including strict entry rules, staggered pavilion openings, 672 planned adaptation scenarios, sign-language interpreters, adapted materials and lactation cabins.
  • The campaign concentrates nearly half of registrants in Bizkaia and draws candidates from other Spanish provinces and abroad, a mobilisation that the health minister says equals roughly 10% of Euskadi’s working population, while the remaining category exams will be held in stages from autumn.