Regions shelter homeless during coronavirus lockdown
Regional and local governments across Spain are rushing to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters to minimize the spread…
Healthcare
Gov’t to extend Spain’s ‘state of alarm’ until 11th April
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Sunday that his government will ask Congress to extend the country’s current “state of alarm” through Wednesday…
FOCUS: Why Spain’s hospitals are not better prepared
In a televised address Saturday evening on the state of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, President Pedro Sánchez made crystal clear that the primary…
Valencia to deploy 3 field hospitals in provincial capitals
The regional government of the Valencian Community has announced it has contracted a construction company specialized in deploying pre-fabricated buildings to build…
Sánchez to Congress: Coronavirus ‘worst is yet to come’
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez told legislators in Congress on Wednesday that the worst of Spain’s COVID-19 epidemic is yet to come, while…
Elderly at highest-risk in Spain’s coronavirus epidemic
Following the deaths from coronavirus of 19 residents at a Madrid senior-care facility Tuesday, the concern is mounting for the elderly in…
Spain’s gypsy community target of coronavirus racism
An national federation of women’s groups from Spain’s Roma community has complained of a spate of racist and anti-gypsy messages being disseminated…
COVID-19: 200bn euros to protect workers, businesses
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Tuesday afternoon that the government will mobilize 200 billion euros in an unprecedented aid package financed with…
COVID-19: Iglesias in charge of efforts to help homeless
The coalition government has placed 2nd Vice President and Minister for Social Affairs Pablo Iglesias in charge of coordinating efforts by the…
Sánchez centralizes control of fight against coronavirus
After a grueling seven-hour meeting of the government’s Council of Ministers executive cabinet, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced late Saturday a series…
Spain’s coronavirus crisis could last four or five months
Officials in Spain’s Health Ministry are now saying that the coronovirus epidemic in Spain will last anywhere from two to five months,…
Valencia’s ‘Fallas’ suspended over coronavirus fears
Valencia’s regional government has announced the postponement until further notice of the massive annual Fallas celebrations in the city of Valencia, as…
Gov’t pledges ‘shock plan’, COVID-19 cases top 1,600
Spain’s coalition government has moved to implement emergency measures as part of a comprehensive “shock plan” that President Pedro Sánchez says will…
COVID-19: Madrid schools shut, hospitals under strain
Healthcare authorities in the regional community of Madrid announced late Monday the emergency closure of all schools and universities in the region…
New euthanasia law expected to be passed by Congress
Spain’s Congress is set to begin debate Tuesday on legislation to legalize euthanasia, which if passed as expected by a majority of…
Protest decries ongoing healthcare decline in Andalucía
Some 20,000 protesters marched through Sevilla on Sunday, converging on the Plaza de España to rally against inaction in resolving bottlenecks and…
PSOE re-introduces euthanasia law in Congress
Spain’s Socialist party has re-introduced legislation in Congress to legalize euthanasia, with the government’s new Health Minister Salvador Illa saying he anticipates…
Iglesias to coordinate ‘Agenda 2030’ for coalition gov’t
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
Hazte Oír targets PP, Cs & PSOE with buses, billboards
Ultra-right group Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) has targeted Spain’s three leading political parties in a campaign of negative attack ads aimed…
NGO sponsors child malnutrition photo diagnosis app
University researchers working with the Spanish affiliate of international non-governmental aid agency Action Against Hunger (ACT International) have developed a breakthrough mobile…
Right to die with dignity erupts into elections campaign
The arrest of a 70-year-old Madrid man for illegally having assisted in the death of his 61-year-old terminally ill wife has thrust…
Global index names Spain world’s healthiest country
Spain has been named the healthiest country in the world, jumping from sixth place to supplant Italy at the top of the…
Catalonia protests put pressure on Torra over budget
Draconian budget cuts initiated in 2010 and continued in successive years under the government of Catalonia’s ex-President Artur Mas appear to be…
Congress votes to reinstate universal healthcare access
In a reversal of restrictions placed on healthcare access in 2012 by the conservative Partido Popular (PP) government of then-President Mariano Rajoy,…
Gov’t to expand assisted reproduction services in 2019
Spain’s new Socialist government has approved a measure that will allow single heterosexual women and lesbian couples to regain access to assisted-reproduction…
PSOE wants euthanasia covered by national healthcare
The new government of President Pedro Sánchez will take the debate over euthanasia in Spain one step further on Tuesday, with Sánchez’s…
Sánchez gov’t pledges return to universal healthcare
The new Socialist party (PSOE) government of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has pledged to reinstate universal healthcare in Spain within the next…
Sánchez showcases progressive centre-Left government
► New cabinet includes 11 women, 6 men and first openly gay ministers ► ► Sánchez restructures ministries, brings 5 independents onto…
NGOFILE :: Médicos Sin Fronteras
Médicos Sin Fronteras (or Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF), known in English as “Doctors Without Borders,” is an international non-governmental organization that since…
Balearics protest over Catalan-only healthcare decree
► Marchers protest linguistic decree affecting healthcare workers ► Thousands of protesters gathered in the capital city of the Mediterranean island of…
Spanish youth ranked near top of 2017 ‘Wellbeing Index’
► But jobless rate, low education spending seen as drag on youth’s futures ► Young people in Spain find themselves ranked relatively…