In the first half of the year, total 848,340 patients were waiting for emergency surgery3.4% more than the same period of last year, and the number of waiting days increased to 121, 9 more than in June 2023.
These are some of the details from the report of the Information System on Waiting Lists of the National Health System corresponding to the first half of 2024 which the Ministry of Health has just released and shows that the number of people waiting more than 6 months has increased by 3 percent, to 20.5 %.
In particular, the largest lists are given by Plastic Surgery (236 days), Neurosurgery (189 days) and Angiology and Vascular Surgery (148); On the other hand are Cardiovascular Surgery (63 days), Dermatology (65 days) and Ophthalmology (84 days).
