Torrevieja Excluded from Generalitat's Hospital Expansion Plan

The Platform for Public and Quality Healthcare in Torrevieja denounces the lack of investment in an area with sustained population growth and increasing care needs.

Generic image of an empty hospital bed, symbolizing healthcare capacity.
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Generic image of an empty hospital bed, symbolizing healthcare capacity.

The Platform for Public and Quality Healthcare of Torrevieja has denounced that the city's health department has been excluded from the Generalitat's program to expand 12,310 hospital beds in a dozen hospitals across the Valencian Community.

The collective believes that this decision highlights the lack of investment in an area with sustained population growth and increasing healthcare needs. Therefore, it demands public health investment commensurate with the registered population in the department.

"Torrevieja's absence from this plan reinforces the imbalance between healthcare demand and the public health system's response capacity."

a spokesperson for the platform
The platform also questions the global data provided by administrations regarding waiting lists. It recalls that the Ministry of Health set the average structural delay for a first specialized care appointment in the Valencian Community at 95 calendar days during the second half of 2025, although it asserts that this reality "does not align" with the experience of patients and families in Torrevieja.
According to the collective, the publication of aggregated statistics prevents knowing the specific situation of each department and conceals territorial inequalities between better-equipped areas and peripheral ones, such as Torrevieja. In this regard, it emphasizes that the area also suffers the impact of healthcare reversal and the lack of new infrastructure.
Among the main shortcomings, the platform cites the paralysis or delay of primary care expansions and the lack of progress on the department's second hospital. Furthermore, it maintains that Torrevieja has one less bed per thousand inhabitants than the regional average.
The statement also criticizes that, while the public network is not strengthened, various municipalities are negotiating the establishment of new private centers. In the collective's opinion, waiting lists favor private business and healthcare outsourcing, to the detriment of patients with fewer resources.
As proposals, the platform demands the publication of waiting lists by department, greater investment in public resources, and the implementation of guaranteed maximum deadlines for diagnostic tests, specialist consultations, and non-urgent interventions, following examples from other autonomous communities.