The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Valencia has agreed to open investigation proceedings to determine the “possible typicality” of the events reported by the El Defensor del Paciente Association, after the Ministry of Health reported that it is investigating delays in 150,000 preventive cancer mammograms during the government stage of the Botànic.
The president of that association, Carmen Flores, indicated in the complaint that she considered that this entails a “situation of irreversible worsening if cancer were detected” and demanded that the veracity of these data be investigated due to the “risk to the health or life of women and the abandonment of functions of those who have not taken precautionary measures”.
The decree issued by the Prosecutor’s Office, against which there is no appeal, agrees to “pre-procedural investigation proceedings in order to carry out as many actions as are necessary to determine the possible typicality of the reported facts” and indicates that it has appointed an investigating prosecutor to take charge. from the same
It also points out that to date “the identity of the people considered suspicious is unknown,” that the facts investigated “do not constitute a crime” and that it has been proven that there is “no evidence of the existence of any judicial procedure for these facts.”
