The Department of Health recommends that children under six years of age watch the solar eclipse of August 12th on television and not directly. The Minister of Health, Manuela García, has presented the health protocol for this day with a call for "prudence" and "responsibility" to prevent irreversible eye injuries.

Mercedes Febles is the head of Gynecology at Manacor Hospital. A few days ago, she presented the "Es Mujer" initiative in Madrid, a comprehensive state strategy for women's health, with the aim of addressing the different stages and physiological conditions of women in a unified way, such as menstruation, fertility, endometriosis or fibroids, and menopause. The presentation at the Congress of Deputies seeks to give visibility and institutional support to the project.

Throughout the period in which doctors have been on strike against the Ministry's Statute, IB-Salut has maintained a constant attitude of not offering its own monitoring data on the impact of the mobilizations on the medical staff. Instead of publishing official percentages on the professionals' adherence to the stoppage, the Administration has limited itself to reporting on the affected healthcare activity, detailing suspensions of consultations, diagnostic tests, and surgical interventions, as well as rescheduling derived from the situation.

More than 86,000 consultations and tests canceled, more than 2,100 operations postponed, and an economic impact of 12.5 million euros. This is the provisional balance of the 31 days of doctors' strike in the Balearic Islands against the proposed Framework Statute from the Ministry of Health that is advancing in its processing. A conflict that has gone far beyond a labor dispute and has become an open tug-of-war between medical unions, the Ministry, and the autonomous communities over the public healthcare model, in a context where healthcare competencies have been transferred to the autonomies.

When a family from the Islands receives the news that they must leave their home and go to Barcelona for one of them to receive treatment, the illness stops being the only problem. Another race begins: finding a place to sleep, managing work, and learning to live with uncertainty. For more than 20 years, the Association for Aid to the Patient's Companion (ADAA) has been alleviating this burden with a silent and constant task that this year has earned it the ARA Balears Colonya Caixa Pollença Award for Social Action.

The complaints filed with the Office of the Ombudsman for Users of the Public Health System of the Balearic Islands experienced a notable increase during 2025. According to the annual report presented this Wednesday to Parliament by the ombudsman for users, Bernardí Bou, the body processed 251 cases, a figure representing an increase of 37.2% compared to the 183 registered the previous year.

The fifth week of the doctors' strike against the Framework Statute promoted by the Ministry of Health continues with high participation in the Balearic Islands. According to the provisional assessment by the Balearic Medical Union (Simebal), this Tuesday the strike was supported by 70% of the external hospital consultation physicians and 40% of primary care professionals.

The Association for Aid to the Patient's Companion of the Balearic Islands has been distinguished with the Colonya Caixa Pollença Award for Social Action of the ARA Balears Awards, an award that recognizes projects with a direct impact on improving people's lives and, especially, the most vulnerable groups.

The Department of Health estimates that the new week of medical strike will cause the suspension of some 15,000 healthcare services in the Balearic Islands, with an economic impact that could reach 2.5 million euros. This was explained this Monday by the Minister of Health, Manuela García, who expressed her concern about the consequences of the conflict for both professionals and patients.

Between January and May, a total of 508 people died in the Balearic Islands who were on the waiting list for assessment or for the perception of benefits as dependents. In the same period, the number of beneficiaries in the Archipelago increased by 0.9%, while the state average was 2.9%.

The Balearic Health Service has set the minimum services for the state strike of doctors and A1 group physicians of the National Health System, called between June 15 and 19. The stoppage has been called in protest against the reform of the framework statute proposed by the Ministry of Health.

The incorporation of new resident doctors (MIR) in the Balearic health centers once again highlights the feminization of the medical profession. Of the 152 professionals who have started their specialized training period this year and have registered with the college in the Balearic Islands, 110 are women and 42 are men. This means that 72.3% of the new residents are women.

"For two years now, practically every time we go there, we find problems."practically every time we go there, we find problemsThe decision made on Monday has caused a real race against time to guarantee the canteen service for 33 educational centers and redistribute nearly 2,000 school menus daily with only nine days left until the end of the school year. Officially, the Ministry of Health has justified the closure due to non-compliance detected in the preparation, handling, and transport of food. However, the consulted sources assure that the intervention is the culmination of years of inspections, warnings, and proceedings.

For non-compliance in the preparation, handling, and transport of food intended for educational centers. These are the reasons why the Ministry of Health has ordered the precautionary closure of the central kitchen of the Can Arabí restaurant with only nine days left to finish the school year. The decision has forced the redistribution, from one day to the next, of nearly 2,000 school menus from 33 centers among three different companies. In total, Can Arabí manages 45 school canteens, many of them catering. The inspection was carried out this Monday and, well into the night, technicians from the Ministry of Education contacted management teams and families to inform them of the situation and activate an emergency plan to maintain the canteen service.

The Consumers' Association of the Balearic Islands (Consubal) has reported that patients in the public healthcare system are receiving new medical appointments with delays of up to five months after consultations were cancelled during recent strike days.

The union representatives of the IB-Salut ambulances have registered a strike call in the four islands to demand labor improvements and the fulfillment of pending agreements. As reported this Monday by the union representatives, the stoppages will take place on June 16, 19, 24, and 26 between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM and between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM, while from June 29 onwards, an indefinite 24-hour strike will begin if no progress is made in negotiations.

The IB-Salut plans to incorporate nearly 200 nurses into the Community's health centers through an extraordinary integration process for staff destined for professionals with the specialty of Family and Community Nursing.

The difficulty in accessing housing and the high cost of living continue to take their toll on public healthcare in the Balearic Islands. The SATSE Nursing Union has reported that 80 nurses have left the Balearic Islands between January 1 and May 15, a situation it directly attributes to the impossibility for many professionals to maintain themselves economically in the Archipelago.

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The fourth week of doctors' strike in the Balearic Islands, called to demand a specific framework statute for the medical collective and which this Thursday reaches its fourth and final day, has already caused the suspension of 212 operations and 11,239 consultations. According to provisional data provided by IBSalut, only this Thursday 41 surgical interventions and 1,418 consultations and diagnostic tests have been cancelled, in addition to 1,694 Primary Care visits.