The Andalucian Minister for Equality, Health and Social Policies, María José Sánchez Rubio, has reiterated that the Andalucian Government will not apply the co-payment system for medicines for hospital patients and intends to lodge an appeal before the new law is introduced ‘with vigour’ on October 1st 2013.
External prosthesis removed when patient couldn’t pay the bill
Two days after knee surgery at the Hospital Arnau de Vilanova in Valencia, a patient had his external prosthesis taken away because he could not afford to pay the bill.