Overview

• President Juanma Moreno accepted the immediate resignation of Rocío Hernández and pledged changes in the Health Ministry plus an internal audit of the screening pathway.
• The Junta approved a €12 million emergency plan with 119 hires, extended hours and weekend work, and a new protocol to proactively notify women, targeting completion of pending reviews by 30 November.
• About 90% of the roughly 2,000 affected cases are concentrated at Seville’s Hospital Virgen del Rocío, which will receive most of the reinforcements.
• Health Minister Mónica García requested five years of screening data from all regions and called the Andalusian failure structural, saying the state will closely track breast, colon and cervical programs.
• Authorities say the health impact is still being assessed, with SAS statistics suggesting about 1–2% of inconclusive cases may be malignant, and longstanding TSJA rulings on delayed diagnosis indicate potential liability.