https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Less than a month after Christmas, staff in the intensive care unit at Barcelona's Hospital del Mar are working non-stop. https://www.thelocal.es/20210122/how-spains-hospitals-are-now-paying-the-price-for-christmas-festivities Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:04:38 +0100 how-spains-hospitals-are-now-paying-the-price-for-christmas-festivities Near Madrid airport, an army of cranes works round the clock to build a new pandemic hospital which is expected to open in November. https://www.thelocal.es/20200904/madrid-races-to-finish-new-pandemic-hospital-ahead-of-second-wave Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:24:52 +0200 madrid-races-to-finish-new-pandemic-hospital-ahead-of-second-wave A Spanish woman died at a hospital in Seville when she became caught in lift doors as she was being stretchered to the recovery room after giving birth. https://www.thelocal.es/20170821/spanish-mother-cut-in-half-by-hospital-lift-doors-minutes-after-giving-birth Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:18:47 +0200 spanish-mother-cut-in-half-by-hospital-lift-doors-minutes-after-giving-birth A jazz musician played his saxophone during an operation to remove a tumour to enable brain surgeons to monitor the neurological activity. https://www.thelocal.es/20151217/spanish-musician-played-saxophone-while-surgeons-removed-tumour-from-his-brain Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:31:22 +0100 spanish-musician-played-saxophone-while-surgeons-removed-tumour-from-his-brain Carles Colomer Cotta is refusing to eat until hospital authorities agree to give him free internet access. He tells The Local about his unusual protest. https://www.thelocal.es/20151007/spanish-patient-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-hospital-wifi Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:25:02 +0200 spanish-patient-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-demand-hospital-wifi A Spanish hospital said on Monday it has successfully carried out the world's most complex face transplant, reconstructing the lower face, neck, mouth, tongue and back of the throat of a man terribly disfigured by disease. https://www.thelocal.es/20150331/barcelona-hospital-conducts-most-complex-face-transplant Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:17:36 +0200 barcelona-hospital-conducts-most-complex-face-transplant After a Spanish nurse became infected with Ebola the staff at Carlos III hospital have had to take a step into charted territory to fight against the deadly virus. https://www.thelocal.es/20141019/spanish-medical-pioneers-leading-ebola-fight Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:51:00 +0200 spanish-medical-pioneers-leading-ebola-fight Madrid's regional government has scrapped highly controversial plans to privatize six public hospitals after a Spanish court ruled against the project. https://www.thelocal.es/20140128/madrid-forced-to-abandon-hospital-privatisations Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:50:00 +0100 madrid-forced-to-abandon-hospital-privatisations Thousands of pharmacies closed for several hours in Spain's northern Catalonia region on Thursday in a strike over the regional government's failure to pay their bills. https://www.thelocal.es/20131108/catalan-chemists-strike-over-unpaid-bills Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:22:00 +0100 catalan-chemists-strike-over-unpaid-bills Spanish hospitals are making patients wait longer than ever for operations, new government stats show. https://www.thelocal.es/20130826/record-waiting-periods-hit-spanish-patients Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:29:00 +0200 record-waiting-periods-hit-spanish-patients Around 100 workers at Madrid's La Paz hospital have gathered to protest against the privatization of healthcare in Madrid, Spain, and to demand that Cristina Cifuentes, the Popular Party politician currently undergoing treatment there after a traffic accident, be moved to a private hospital. https://www.thelocal.es/20130822/hospital-protesters-target-scooter-crash-mp Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:59:00 +0200 hospital-protesters-target-scooter-crash-mp More than a million people in Spain's capital will have their health put in the hands of three private companies from September onwards. https://www.thelocal.es/20130819/madrid-shuns-private-healthcare-takeover Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:43:55 +0200 madrid-shuns-private-healthcare-takeover Medics in Ibiza were forced to enlist the help of buzz saw-wielding fire-fighters on Wednesday to free a German tourist from the clutches of a steel sex toy. https://www.thelocal.es/20130705/buzzsaw-rescue-for-sex-armour-man Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:53:00 +0200 buzzsaw-rescue-for-sex-armour-man A Galician woman gave birth to a baby daughter in a hotel room on Sunday just two hours after hospital staff diagnosed her as not being in labour and sent her home again. https://www.thelocal.es/20130702/hospital-blunder-induces-hotel-baby-birth Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:08:00 +0200 hospital-blunder-induces-hotel-baby-birth The manager of a hospital in Majorca was fired on Wednesday after staff at his clinic repeatedly refused to treat a Senegalese man who later died of tuberculosis. https://www.thelocal.es/20130522/controversial-balearic-health-law-claims-first-victim Wed, 22 May 2013 19:37:00 +0200 controversial-balearic-health-law-claims-first-victim A man in Asturias has been arrested after he allegedly bit his housemate’s lover’s ear off for keeping him up all night. https://www.thelocal.es/20130426/man-chews-off-ear-in-sleepless-rage Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:54:34 +0200 man-chews-off-ear-in-sleepless-rage