0.6% of medical care supplied in 2021 was categorised within the specialty of oncologyIn 2019, former minister Eduardo Zaplana spent a number of months in provisional jail regardless of affected by leukemia
Spanish prisons handle some 500 oncology consultations a 12 months for prisoners recognized with most cancers, in line with the annual stories of Penitentiary Institutions consulted by Europa Press. Specifically, there have been 576 consultations in 2021 –last 12 months recorded–, 428 in 2020, 522 in 2019 and 489 in 2018; In 2017, with the PP in authorities, 615 oncological consultations had been attended.
The statistics of the physique depending on the Ministry of the Interior don’t embody the variety of prisoners receiving therapy for sickness, in order that a number of consultations could also be associated to the identical inmate.
The official statistics don’t specify the inmates launched, as occurred in 2019 with the previous minister and former president of the Valencian Generalitat Eduardo Zaplana, who spent a number of months in provisional jail regardless of affected by leukemia.
2021 knowledge
According to the most recent report from Penitentiary Institutions, in 2021 they managed a complete of 91,860 medical attentions, of which 0.6% had been categorised within the specialty of oncology.
The overwhelming majority (573) had been handled exterior the jail, referring to the community of public well being facilities. In just one case the session was carried out in the identical jail, whereas in two others telemedicine was chosen, which incorporates phone consultations.
68% of the 91,860 specialised care consultations had been carried out inside prisons, with the displacement of a specialist. Odontostomatology, which treats dental and oral pathologies, is the specialty that has by far the most important variety of circumstances, totaling 39,511 consultations, 98% with out leaving prisons.
It is adopted by psychiatry with 17,873 consultations -97% handled in prisons- after which, at an excellent distance, the specialties categorised as traumatology (5,504 consultations), optics (3,319) and surgical procedure (3,227).
Below the two,000 consultations are different specialties reminiscent of ophthalmology (2,426), digestive (1,897), urology (1,837), gynecology (1,452), otorhinolaryngology (1,384), dermatology (1,381), inner medication (1,264), cardiology (1,230) , infectious ailments (1,272) and neurology (1,138).
instruction of 2018
At the top of 2018, Penitentiary Institutions issued an instruction with a protocol to manage the “process for the issuance of a medical report and processing of the suspension of the custodial sentence for very critical sickness with incurable situations.”
In this manner, months after the change of presidency, it was determined to droop the earlier protocol of the PP stage, from 2017, which took under consideration temporal standards when deciding which recordsdata of severely in poor health prisoners had been despatched to the judges for examine. his attainable launch.
In observe, specialists had been urged to evaluate not solely the momentary life expectancy but additionally the impression on the inmate’s high quality of life within the case of remaining incarcerated.
The instruction coincided briefly with the choice of a courtroom to disclaim the discharge of former minister Eduardo Zaplana, with leukemia and in pretrial detention since May 2018.
His lawyer warned on a number of events of the “very important danger” for the previous PP chief, who spent a number of weeks in a hospital till, in February 2019, the investigating choose of the ‘Erial case’ launched him on provisional launch after ordering the blockade in Switzerland from a few of his accounts.