The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, listened to his Health Minister, Antonio Sanz, was absent when the opposition began, went up to his office in the Chamber to “comply with the management agenda” and joined around 10 at night when it was time to vote. Today he had to answer five questions on the same subject. And Moreno has gone on the attack, accusing the opposition of “busting the health system” to get votes and has said that there are “radiologists who have received verbal threats.” From there he went on to predict that “one day we are going to reach a violent threat.” The session was marked by an intervention by Inma Nieto, Por Andalucía, who showed Moreno a mammogram of a patient named Anabel, stating that she had disappeared from the patient portal of the Andalusian Health Service, and that she had then reappeared, but manipulated.
worthy of the name, is going through its worst political moment eight months before the elections, following failures in breast cancer screening, in which women with suspicious or inconclusive diagnoses were not informed of the results of their tests. Moreno, like his advisor Antonio Sanz the day before, continues without giving details of what has happened. There are four questions from the groups: what happened, why, to how many women and in which hospitals.
On October 1, Rocío Hernández, then Minister of Health, who resigned on the 9th, said that there were “three or four cases”, but 12 hours – not 2,037, or 2,148, or 1,975 or 3,467 -, 90%, at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville. And this absence of explanations leaves the parliamentary groups with immense terrain to mark Moreno, whom they accuse of “hiding.”
On October 21, the Amama association, of Andalusian women victims of breast cancer, of the different information and management systems used by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) to publish diagnostic tests. Councilor Antonio Sanz came out shortly after to deny it and asked Amama to stop “spreading lies.” Later it was learned that it prevented access to the diagnostic tests in the ClicSalud+ application and Sanz made a book error when comparing this fall on the 20th, “or look at the La Oreja de Van Gogh concert, there were so many people that the system also crashed.” This health crisis involves not only what happened with the screenings, but also its management – the president acknowledged that he had not been informed – and a communication policy that has put Moreno in the center of the target.
And at this point, the spokesperson for Por Andalucía, Inma Nieto, has come out with the image of a mammogram in her hand. “This is Anabel’s breast. And this was the mammogram that appeared in her medical record before the system went down, like the ticket sales for a concert. With her lesion marked and the name of the doctor who saw her. And this is the mammogram that has reappeared in her record: without the circle of the lesion and without the name of the professional. The courts will tell what happened, the traces and so on, because they said “Yesterday, touching a story leaves a trace.”
What Nieto said in parliament—and that he had the authorization of the person affected—has outraged Moreno. “Are you saying what you just said in parliament? You have just accused some of the 130,000 professionals of manipulating the data. Therefore, if only the professionals have access, it means that you are saying that someone has given an order to some professionals and the professionals have lent themselves. Stop deteriorating the image of health professionals, stop manipulating. That’s fine! Everything is not worth it,” the president replied. Health ensures that clinical information in Diraya (the system used in the SAS to support clinical history) is not deleted, except by legal mandate.
Moreno has accused Por Andalucía of throwing “tons of garbage” at the professionals, while Nieto “You are already Bonilla, your image has been diluted,” he told him.
The Andalusian president has followed the same strategy with other spokespersons, without providing information about what happened. He has accused the deputy of the Mixed Group-Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, of “manipulating with the aim of deteriorating the Government”, when the latter has accused him of “lying and hiding and not showing his face” in the health crisis.
The socialist María Márquez has reproached him for his absence in the general debate – in reality Moreno is not obliged to appear – for “attacking women and for being a national shame” like the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón. “Explanations must be given. Give the figures,” he insisted. In his reply, the Andalusian president has used the wild card formula of reproaching Pedro Sánchez and the management of the socialist candidate María Jesús Montero, when she was Minister of Health, between 2004 and 2013.
