Overview
- Health officials scheduled meetings with sector unions on Dec. 15 and the strike committee on Dec. 17 after proposing to cut on-call shifts to 17 hours, cap weekly hours at 45 and hold biennial competitive exams, while ruling out a doctors-only statute.
- Regional counts show heavy disruption: Andalucía reported 155,831 outpatient visits, 3,234 surgeries and 14,706 tests canceled over the first three days, and Madrid logged 22,000 consultations, 1,500 surgeries and 3,000 tests for the week.
- In Galicia, authorities tallied about 780 surgeries canceled in the first three days and cautioned total affected procedures could near 70,000 by week’s end, with plans to reschedule roughly half of the operations next week and most activity within two to three weeks.
- Castilla y León estimated around 1,200 operations suspended across the four days, with officials acknowledging longer waits for patients.
- Participation figures remained contested, with regional administrations reporting roughly 20–30% follow-up in many services as unions claimed rates above 80% in some hospitals such as A Coruña.