If you have ever been hospitalised in a public hospital in Andalucia, or visiting a patient, you will have seen that you had to pay to be able to watch TV. Well, that's changed in the province of Málaga at least.

A year and a half after the general hospital in the city of Málaga made viewing free, the Hospital de la Axarquía finally made the move, too.

This change to free-viewing was a 2022, electoral pledge by the PP who govern the Junta de Andalucía, headed by Regional PM, Juanma Moreno. The pledge was to spread this system to all public hospitals in Andalucía

However, the deal struck by the Junta under the socialists with a private company to provide a TV service in hospitals was still in force, so he said as soon as this contract/lease ran out, he would swap over to a non-paying TV service.

But the fact is that this contract does not have a simultaneous end-date in every public hospital in the region; rather each hospital has its own contract with the company and they expire individually; hence the recent change over in the Axarquia general hospital.

Editorial comment: does anybody know if they still charge in Traumatologia or the PTS wards in Granada?

(Velez-Malaga, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)

Keywords: TVs, Hospital Wards, Pay-per-View, Free, Junta, Juanma Moreno

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