More than 19 thousand appointments were lost this Wednesday after the demonstrations of the unions in the health sector. This was reported at about 3:00 pm by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).
The General Medicine service was the most affected, with more than 10,000 appointments lost. In Specialized Medicine, more than 6,000 appointments were lost. And nearly 2,600 appointments for surgical procedures were also lost.
Finally, outpatient surgeries and elective surgeries were the ones that lost the least appointments in the attention of the insured.