Overview
- Madrid health chief Fátima Matute called a meeting with Ribera Salud president Emmanuel de Geuser to review the Torrejón de Ardoz hospital’s management after a leaked executive conversation.
- Matute deemed the leaked remarks unacceptable and noted the company removed the executive involved, while defending audits that she says found no irregularities at the hospital.
- Regional auditors reported waiting times of 42 days versus a 48-day regional average and said recent checks in preventive medicine, cardiology, sterilization, and waste control were in order.
- Health Minister Mónica García says the government is finalizing a Law of Public Management and Integrity to repeal the 1997 framework and limit collaborations with for-profit firms, with a draft due to the Council of Ministers early next year.
- García plans to take the Torrejón case to the Public Prosecutor’s Office with Más Madrid and to deploy the High Inspection, and she is preparing a royal decree to trace waiting-list pathways she argues are currently opaque.