Overview
- President Alfonso Rueda urged the Universidade de Santiago’s medical faculty to resolve its internal dispute and reaffirmed the Xunta’s preference for a single, territorially decentralized Galician faculty.
- Education chief Román Rodríguez said time is running out to rescue the pact and stressed that the roughly 400 training places and existing public funding would be redistributed if multiple faculties operate.
- Officials emphasized that creating new medical schools would require a technically demanding verification process on staffing, facilities, and hospital cooperation before any approval.
- The universities of A Coruña and Vigo have restarted work on their own Medicine degrees, preparing project and verification documents for review by oversight bodies.
- Rodríguez cautioned that, without an agreement, clinical placements would concentrate in Santiago, a load the CHUS hospital complex cannot absorb under current conditions.