Overview
- Official snapshot at June 30: 49,223 people awaiting surgery in Galicia with a 69.3‑day average wait, and 193,336 awaiting a first specialist visit with a 57.3‑day average.
- Surgical delays vary sharply by area, led by Santiago‑Barbanza at 85.7 days on average and Vigo at 70.6, with otorhinolaryngology and traumatology among the longest statewide.
- Vigo’s CHUVI records a diagnostic imaging backlog of 23,184 patients, the highest on record, with average waits of 83 days overall, 121 days for MRI and about 63 for CT.
- Radiologists in Vigo are on strike seeking an extra in‑person on‑call shift, and the action is suspending roughly 100 scheduled tests each day.
- Priority care remains comparatively swift overall—Priority 1 surgeries average 17.7 days statewide—yet Vigo leads Galicia in pending Priority 1 operations with 566 cases.