More than 1,400 Oncological Patients Had Overdue Waiting Time in March

The wait for cancer patients for radiotherapy has become longer and has become twice as long as expected. There is a shortage of both people and equipment. Efforts are being made to get foreign labor and whether it is possible to send patients abroad for treatment are being examined. New cancer diagnoses are only going to increase, but the radiotherapy department at Landspítali has become a limited resource. In the Nordic countries, the waiting …

A follow-up report on the plan, dated 31 March and which Lusa had access, indicates that at that date 8,868 users were enrolled for oncological surgery, 1,488 of whom had already exceeded TMRG. Of these, 180 did not even have surgery scheduled. The numbers were a reduction at the end of March, when 9,477 users were registered, of which 2,536 were out of the maximum time of response (1,067 with scheduled surgery).

In the first three months of the year, 20,376 oncological patients were operated, more than during the same period last year.

More than 1,480 oncological patients waiting for surgery were already over by the end of March the Maximum Time of Guaranteed Response, according to the data provided to the working group accompanying the health emergency plan