The Andalusian Minister of Health accuses the victims of the screening of generating "massive social alarm."

BarcelonaThe new Health Minister of the Andalusian Regional Government, Antonio Sanz, demanded explanations this Wednesday for what he called "false reports" about the disappearance of breast cancer tests and invited "those who went to the Prosecutor's Office yesterday to log into the system today and see if all their documentation is there or not." Without naming her, Sanz was very harsh on Amama, The association that denounced the lack of control over mammograms, and has accused him of generating "a brutal social alarm" for having warned that for hours health system users could not access the results of diagnostic tests that were posted in medical records.

In the press conference following the meeting of the Andalusian Governing Council, Sanz stressed that on Tuesday there was a computer failure that "affected mammograms, but also foot X-rays" because the system was not working, as a result of the alarm created by the entity. According to his account, the access of a large number of users ended up "collapsing the computer system, and therefore the medical records could not be accessed until it was resolved a few hours later, already in the early hours of the morning.

"Under no circumstances has the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) deleted any evidence," argued Sanz, who has ignored the suffering and anguish that it caused among patients. Therefore, he was convinced that the complaint filed by Amama "It will last a day," as it is based on "something that has already been proven not to have happened."

"They undermine the credibility of healthcare."

Furthermore, Sanz also accused the victims of "damaging the credibility" of the healthcare system and creating "distrust" among women when it comes to accessing a "screening that saves many lives." The minister demanded that the problems of a system, whose computing capacity has increased fivefold in recent hours to resolve the situation, not be mixed with the elimination of evidence, which "has not occurred in any case."

After calling for "prudence and serenity" and affirming that the Regional Government will always treat all patient associations "with affection," he lamented that Amama had "rejected for the fifth time" the Andalusian government's invitation to hold a meeting. "I would have liked to show them the computer system where the backup copies are," said Sanz, who added that this would have been avoided if Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had used this issue in the control session in Congress; something he described as "indecent."