In the province of Granada, there is a 6-month waiting list to see a medical specialist for the first visit.

This information was confirmed by the Junta de Andalucía, rather than denying it. These figures come from the official statistics that were published earlier in the week.

The backlog is 178 days for your first visit to a specialist and 185 if it is arranged through your GP.*

Both these figures are worse than last year’s, which was almost two months shorter in waiting time.

Granada’s figures are the second worst within Andalucía with only Jaén having longer waiting times; 212 days on average.

In that province there are 139,916 people on waiting lists for medical specialists. That, by the way, is equivalent to 15% of the provincial population.

But there’s good news, too, in that the back log caused by the pandemic has finally disappeared.

Editorial comment: * I didn’t think that you could go straight to a specialist in the public health system.

(News/Noticias: Granada, Andalucia)