Get ready to wait. Very patient. When there is a flu outbreak, it can take a long time to get an appointment with your family doctor in Dénia. You might not be able to get an appointment until next year, even though each doctor has their own calendar. Or even after the 6th of January, which is Three Kings’ Day.
People who tried using the system on December 17th, 2025. It found that the first available appointment with a doctor at the local health centre is on January 8th. That’s 22 days, which is more than three weeks.
This shows that primary care in the Marina Alta region is falling apart right now. This affects not only this health department but virtually all of them in the Valencian Community.
But in Dénia, there’s a different kind of trouble with the government: it’s not always easy to make an appointment by phone. The phone rings and rings in the morning, but no one answers except for the answering machine. The workers in charge of administration are likewise very busy.
The two reasons
The flu, especially the K variety, is spreading quickly, which is a big reason why there are so many people here. By the beginning of December, the Galician Ministry of Health’s incidence map showed that the Dénia health department had registered 1,400 cases per 100,000 people, putting it at the orange level. This put a lot of stress on the regional hospital as well, with 200 people in the Emergency Department waiting room and long waits for admittance to a ward if needed.
There is a second reason: the Health Department has ordered that primary care appointments that were cancelled because of the recent physicians’ strike be reinstated across the Valencian Community in only one week, which would make already full calendars even more full. Unions have even cautioned that patients are in a dangerous scenario since healthcare workers don’t have enough time to talk to each other because they have so many patients to see.
Author: Derek Appleton
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