Overview

• The family’s lawyer, José Antonio Sires of SIRES Abogados, says he will lodge the complaint next Tuesday at a Seville investigating court.
• The patient underwent a mastectomy in 2020 and was on six‑month reviews, with the last in November 2023 and a missed call expected in April 2024 before referral to palliative care in June 2025 and her death in July.
• The filing alleges negligent care and breach of the Servicio Andaluz de Salud’s protocol, which mandates double reading of mammograms and prompt referral and follow-up for doubtful or positive results.
• Sires notes the breast cancer screening program underwent a technical change during 2023–24 to digital systems, asserting that follow-up duties and diagnostic time limits remained in force.
• Separate complaints by Defensor del Paciente, Izquierda Unida and Adelante Andalucía have already been submitted to the prosecutor, with political pressure heightened by the recent resignation of the regional health minister.