Cross Hospital.
Six people have been injured after the false roof of a bar collapsed in Galdakao
After 2,000 liver transplants in 30 years, the ACV is at the global apex
Three decades after the first liver transplant in the Basque Country, the Basque Health Service has carried out almost 2,000 such transplants, about 75 per year, and ranks first worldwide, with a rate of 60 transplants per million inhabitants, three times the average in Western countries.
Osakidetza doctors have started two days of strike to demand their own status
Some 9,000 professionals are called to unemployment today and tomorrow. There will also be mobilizations in several hospitals in Hego Euskal Herria.
Flu cases in the Basque Country have increased by 4% in the week following the Christmas celebrations
Libe, the first child in the Basque Country in 2026, was born at 02:43 in the hospital in Mendaro
Pending confirmation from other hospitals, the first New Year's baby is Guipuzcoan, as it was last year, and the second is Xalo, born at 07:11 at the Alto Deba Hospital in Gipuzkoa.
Osakidetza broke records in November with 34 transplants at Cruces Hospital
The center has carried out 25 kidney transplants and 9 liver transplants in just one month, strengthening its national and international leadership in this field.
The Medical Union of the Basque Country will begin four strike days on Tuesday, calling for a statute of its own
The Medical Union of the Basque Country shall strike against the draft Framework Statute. In the face of negotiations, a Statute of its own has been promulgated, which alone may reflect the specific characteristics of the profession and defend a specific regulation.
Doctors take to the streets against the draft Framework Statute
Doctors demand a table of their own to negotiate working conditions. "We want to design and negotiate, because we have almost zero representation at that negotiating table," said Ana Santorcuato, representative of the Medical Union of the Basque Country.
"There may be very important traces in the placenta to understand the child's evolution and health."
Osakidetzahas created ab iobank of blood and placenta samples from pregnant women to investigate metabolic and neurological diseases. Nora Fernandez , a researcher at the IRLAB Immunogenetic Research Laboratory in Biobizkaia, predicts that possible future ailments "may be predicted in placenta."
Osakidetza will create a biobank with blood and placenta samples from pregnant women to investigate metabolic and neurological diseases
Pregnant women who give birth at Cruces Hospital will be able to donate a sample of blood and a small part of the placenta, which will be stored in the biobank of the CSC and will be used to investigate diabetes, hypertension and neural development disorders for early diagnosis and help better care.
A climber who fell on Mount Untzillaitz has been rescued
On the south side of the mountain, the 30-year-old man has fallen from a height of 8 metres and, after being rescued by helicopter, has been taken to Cruces hospital with injuries.
The battery of an electric chair exploded in a house in Bilbao and five people were injured
One person has been seriously injured by jumping out of the window to prevent the fire, while four others have had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
Gazatis children treated in Basque hospitals have burns, shrapnel wounds and malnutrition, in addition to serious illnesses
Doctors at Cruces Hospital and Donostia Hospital in Gaza have stressed that they are "fine." However, some are "malnourished" and will wait a while to "go to surgery in good condition."
Gaixorik dauden 5 haur gazatar gutxienez Euskal Herriko ospitaleetan artatuko dituzte
Horietatik hiru Gurutzetako Ospitalera eramango dituzte, eta beste biak, berriz, Donostiako Ospitalera. Hala baieztatu dio Defentsa Ministerioak EITBri. Haurrak eta haien senitartekoak gaur arratsaldean dira Zaragozara iristekoak.
Osakidetza will offer 173 difficult Primary Care places, 30 more than planned
The Department of Health has reported that the Hselection process will be resolved in July sothat "professionals can start working in health centres as soon as possible".
EH Bildu believes that "it is time to show the commitment" of the Basque Government to close the Health Pact
According to the abertzale coalition, "this is a crucial moment to strengthen the Basque health service" and "turn the privatizing dynamic around." That is why EH Bildu has asked the Basque Government to be "firmly" involved, as well as the PNV and the PSE-EE.
Yazan, salty and oncological patient in the Basque Country: "When I grow up, I'll be a doctor to take care of other children."
Osakidetza is treating five children with oncological diseases in the hospitals of Cruces and Donostia. Yazan is one of those children who has been in Donostia with their mother for two months.
In the ACV last year there were 12,937 births, 3.8 fewer than in 2023, and the lowest number since 1975
Álava is the territory with the largest decrease in births, with 5.5 per cent fewer births, to 2,094; in Bizkaia there were 6,421 births, or 3.7 per cent less, and in Gipuzkoa there were 4,422 births, or 3.2 per cent less.