Dénia Hospital patient reports two surgery cancellations in one week

Pedro, a patient at Dénia Hospital, reports that the centre cancelled his operation twice in barely one week—an operation he had been waiting for for two and a half years. According to his account, medical staff had initially told him that the ostomy he carries would last approximately one year.

The first intervention was scheduled for 30 September 2026 and, according to Pedro's account, was suspended one day before, after he had undergone preoperative preparation. The second appointment was set a week later, on 7 October, when Pedro says he checked into the hospital at 7:00 a.m. to undergo the procedure.

According to Pedro, on both occasions he was told the cancellation was due to lack of beds: "NO BEDS", "We cannot operate on you", he recounted. The patient also reports that after the second suspension he received no explanation and was not given a new date for the operation: "Nobody has come to give us an explanation and we haven't even been given a new date for the operation", he said.

Pedro's complaint comes just days after Dénia Hospital opened the photographic exhibition "Herois", which presents portraits and testimonies from eight ostomised patients from the Health Department.

There is no official explanation from the hospital confirming the circumstances of the two suspensions reported by the patient.