Operation Waiting Times for Torrevieja Hospital Are Lowest in the Valencia Region

Waiting times for operations at Torrevieja hospital and at the Vinalopó hospital in Elche are 77 days less than the rest of the public hospitals in the Valencia region, according to official figures. The data, which runs up until the end of December, shows that waiting lists average 115 days across all of the region’s hospitals, but the waits at Torrevieja and Vinalopó come in at just 38 days.

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Specialist areas like cardiac and thoracic surgery come in at less than 30 days whilst for vascular operations, the waiting time at the two hospitals was five months less than in other facilities across the Valencia region. General surgery times came in at three months better than the regional average.