The Community of Madrid published data on the “quality” of the region’s public health in response to Pedro Sánchez’s attacks in the Chamber of Deputies. Presidential advisers and local government spokespeople criticized the move. … The government’s president’s “total ignorance” of the region and its health care system. From the community, they defended Madrid, saying it has “the best public health care in Spain and is at the forefront of the world.”
The councilor stressed that the quality of the region’s public health system was becoming “consolidated” with users’ perception that it was “far superior” to other autonomous communities. Therefore, according to the latest Ipsos survey, “77% of users of Madrid’s public health system declared that they were satisfied with their local health care,” he explained.
“Together with the Basque Country and the Balearic Islands, we lead in public perception regarding the quality of health,” he stressed. He also claimed that Madrid’s health system is becoming increasingly “more integrated and competitive.”
He then took aim at Transport Minister Óscar Puente, who is “a user of the Madrid Public Health Agency and a user of public hospitals, but controlled by the Quiron Group.” “We believe in public-private cooperation, and if the national government is not a hypocrite, it will recognize the use of public-private cooperation in responsible health care.”
Data from the Community of Madrid revealed that the region has “the best public health in Spain and at the forefront of the world.” Here are his 10 arguments.
1. – Major national and international standard medical rankings rank Madrid’s public hospitals as the best hospitals in Spain (6 out of the top 10 hospitals) and among the best in the world.
2. -Madrid reaffirms its leadership year after year as the autonomous community with the shortest waiting times for surgical procedures. That’s just 49 days compared to 148 days in Catalonia’s health system, which is managed by the PSOE government.
3. -Since 2019, the Community of Madrid has increased its investment in public health by approximately $3 billion, devoting 36% of its total budget in 2026 to this investment.
4. – Spanish leaders involved in the care of ALS patients at Zendal Hospital, and the upcoming construction of the world’s first center for the disease.
5.- In 2025, construction will begin on the City of Health, the largest public health complex in Europe with an investment of 1 billion euros, which will in the future house the La Paz Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University.
6.-Madrid leads health training in Spain, with more than 2,000 resident internal medicine positions, and these MIRs choose regional hospitals to train.
7.- Pioneering multiple international medical advances, including the treatment of childhood leukemia with CAR-T therapy. We treat 40% of complex oncological conditions across Spain.
8. -According to an IPSOS survey on public healthcare in Spain, Madrid residents’ satisfaction with healthcare will reach its highest level in 2025.
9.- The only region in Spain that performs all types of transplants in public hospitals, both for adults and children.
10.-Madrid has invested more than $300 million in modernizing its public health infrastructure, with 24 new health centers already under construction and four more scheduled to begin construction soon in municipalities across the region.
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