Ayuso and Mazón refuse to send cancer screening data to the Ministry of Health.

BarcelonaDelays in breast cancer screening in Andalusia are shaking up the political climate across the state. Two weeks ago,The Andalusian government admitted errors in the diagnoses and estimated that There would be at least 2,000 women affected and the trickle of cases does not stop. Following the scandal, which already claimed the first political leader withthe dismissal of the Minister of Health, Rocío Hernández, and for which The first complaints are already on the desk of the Superior Prosecutor's Office of Andalusia., the Ministry of Health requested data on cancer screenings from all autonomous communities. However, some of the PP regional governments have already stated that they will not send this information to the ministry, accusing it of requesting it out of "political confrontation."

According to the EFE news agency, the Popular Party (PP) autonomous regions of Madrid, the Valencian Community, and Murcia have agreed on a letter sent to the central government in which they argue to the Minister of Health, Mónica García, for their refusal to send data and indicators on breast cancer screening programs. For her part, the minister has accused these autonomous communities of hiding information from the public: "It's a political maneuver to hide cancer screening data from the public, in addition to an explicit confession that the data is not good," she told the X network. She is trying to "maliciously monitor and manipulate the work that the autonomous communities have been doing for years" with an initiative that "seems to respond solely to a strategy of political confrontation." Population screening is "the exclusive responsibility of the autonomous communities," argued Madrid councilor Fátima Matute. "Cooperation must be based on respect for jurisdiction and on real objectives to improve care, not on the partisan use of public health," she concluded.

Regarding the Valencian Country, Carlos Mazón's executive "does not consider it appropriate" to send the requested information to the Health Ministry and will not collaborate in an initiative that they believe responds "solely to a strategy of political confrontation" and "to divert public attention from the serious shortcomings in the health management" of the ministry. From Murcia they criticize that the Health Ministry has requested this information without having previously established the model to send it or having developed the necessary computer system, which in their opinion makes a homogeneous transmission of data by all communities impossible.

La Rioja and the Canary Islands do send it

In contrast, in La Rioja, also governed by the Popular Party (PP), they emphasize that the regional ministries have been sending information on this and other matters for some time and stress that this region has always collaborated on anything that improves prevention and the health of its citizens. In the Canary Islands, where Coalición Canaria and the PP govern, they will not refuse to respond to the ministry's request, according to sources from the Canary Islands government explained to EFE. It should be noted that both the Presidency of the regional government and the Ministry of Health are under the umbrella of Coalición Canaria.

In Catalonia, sources from the Ministry of Health have explained to ARA that they will continue sending information on the various cancer screening programs as before. "This has always been done and we will continue to do so," the department assures.