A specialist health journalist, Ángel joined SUR in 1990.
The Ministry of Health is cracking down on the sale of some drugs, which should already only be supplied on prescription but which pharmacies commonly sell without asking for one
Accident and emergency departments are seeing as many as 400 patients a day and extra staff have had to be assigned to some health centres to cope with the demand
The procedure at the Regional Hospital of Malaga was the first complex abdominal wall surgery by the robot
Junta sources have told SUR that the figure given by Madrid for the region is incorrect
The regional Minister for Health, Catalina García, also stressed the importance of over-65s and people with chronic health conditions being vaccinated
Due to a shortage of beds at present, the Junta de Andalucía is to rent the privately-owned Pascual Hospital for a period of five years
There are 43 patients with Covid-19 admitted to the province’s hospitals, and a total of 239 patients in the entire Andalucía region
The vaccines being administered are Pfizer and Moderna and they have been adapted to protect against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain of the coronavirus
The new health facility will require an estimated investment of 380 million euros and it will take approximately 60 months to complete
Those who take part in the clinical testing must have had three doses of the Pfizer vaccine and never had Covid-19
The Clínico hospital in Malaga has climbed ten places up the list and is now in 21st place
People aged between 65 and 79 can also make appointments for a flu jab from today, Monday 17 October, and they will receive the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the same time
General practitioners say the symptoms are similar to coronavirus: headache, joint pain, cough and fever
In June 24,723 people in Malaga were on the waiting list for an operation and 215,703 were waiting for an initial appointment with a specialist
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been adapted to provide protection against Omicron variants as well as the original virus and they will be administered at the same time as the flu jab
Cristóbal Urbano, head of the cardiology department at Malaga's Regional Hospital, tells SUR of his concerns
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