Overview
- Coordinators from 12 Galician hospitals report a surge in emergency visits of up to 30% compared with pre‑pandemic peaks.
- They describe continuous delays transferring patients to wards that leave people on stretchers in corridors and compromise safety and dignity.
- This week, Álvaro Cunqueiro hospital had patients in hallways and Santiago’s complex counted 41 seriously ill patients treated in adjacent corridors on January 9.
- Leaders say staff shortages and self‑covering of shifts are pushing teams to the limits of physical and mental exhaustion.
- The manifesto urges Primary Care to resume its gatekeeping role, notes waits of up to three weeks for appointments, gains backing from Spain’s emergency medicine society, and prompts the PSdeG to file measures in parliament for a funded, urgent response.