Managing Director of Andalusian Health Service (SAS), Valle Garcia Sánchez, This Thursday he sent a letter to the president Association of Women Suffering from Breast Cancer of Seville (AMAMA), Angela Claverol, Which gives a deadline … A maximum of ten days to provide the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs “with all information, documents or certificates available to them regarding women for whom there has been a lack of information and a delay in performing the recommended diagnostic test following a potentially benign radiological finding.”
Amama has been insisting for weeks that the shock plan drawn up by the Andalusian government after discovering problems in communicating the results of mammograms with questionable results does not include all cases, and that it knows how many other cases there are. But it does not pass that information on to SAS, hence the letter from its managing director, which it has access to “ABC Seville”.
In the letter, Valle García stressed that “the figures he published in front of us do not correspond to the data verified in official clinical records,” and for this reason “a contradiction has arisen that, due to its health and social impact, requires immediate and documented clarification.”
president Sass He adds in the letter that “this requirement was formulated in order to ensure a comprehensive review of any potential case that was not discovered by official departments.”
Signing the health agreement with the Spanish Cancer Society
On the other hand, today the Minister of Health, the Presidency and Emergencies, Antonio Sanz, chaired the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), represented by its Administrative Director, Valle García, and Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC)In the image of its regional representative, Magdalena Cantero, to “promote a pilot project to support women participating in the Andalusian breast cancer screening programme”.
The agreement, which has an initial duration of twelve months and can be extended, provides for monitoring and control mechanisms that will allow the results to be analyzed and opportunities for improvement in the care provided to be discovered, as the Council indicated in an official letter.
“The agreement aims to enhance communication, personal attention and traceability of the process by creating a single inquiry channel, managed by Sass“This will allow women to get a quick and safe answer to their questions throughout the screening process,” says Salud y Consumo.
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