Overview

• Conseller Marciano Gómez said the payment hold-up is temporary, with reimbursements set to resume once the outstanding FLA funds are released.
• Invoices for May medication dispensed through the public health system, normally paid on June 30, will be settled a month later due to liquidity shortfalls.
• The central government has yet to release the 1.9 billion-euro disbursement from the Autonomous Liquidity Fund that underpins regional health financing.
• Pharmacies in rural areas warn that delayed reimbursements threaten their capacity to meet payroll and other operating costs.
• The funding impasse has heightened political friction between the PP-led regional administration and the socialist-led central government.