Valladolid (EFE) .
This has been, either due to withdrawal of the applicant or because the required conditions were not met.
Withdrawal or non-compliance for those not carried out
The spokesman for the Board, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, detailed this data on Thursday at a press conference after the Governing Council, when the law is in force for the second year.
Carriedo defends that the law has been complied with in the Community and has explained that as of December 31, 2022, eleven euthanasias of the 24 requests have been carried out.
There are 785 objectors to euthanasia in Castilla y León
The spokesman for the Board has also said that conscientious objection in this matter has been “respected” in the Community.
The register of objectors has 582 doctors, 192 nurses and 11 pharmacists, a total of 785 professionals.
The first case of application of the euthanasia law in Castilla y León occurred in October 2021.
It was one of the first four right-to-die petitions filed in the Community.
In another of the cases, the applicant died before being able to resolve it and the other two were dismissed for administrative and medical reasons.
It is the Commission for the Guarantee and Evaluation of Euthanasia in Castilla y León that analyzes the requests to qualify for euthanasia.
The first case with all the legal guarantees materialized in a woman from Valladolid, who had a very advanced state of ALS, and who was helped by a regional health team to die at home.
The guarantee commission verifies that the regulations are complied with
The Euthanasia Evaluation Guarantee Commission in Castilla y León is a collegiate body made up of fifteen professionals from different fields, both health and legal.
Its function is to verify in advance, and control a posteriori, that the regulations and laws established around this procedure are complied with at all times.
Castilla y León has the fourth lowest incidence of euthanasia in 2022: with 0.031 of the total deaths
Euthanasia accounted for less than 0.07% of all deaths registered in Spain in 2022, the first full year with effective provision.
The figure hides large disparities between autonomous communities.
These data are very far from those of other countries where the right to assisted dying is consolidated and where it represents between 1 and 4% of deaths.
Navarra and Catalonia, the communities with the highest rates
The balance has been presented by the Right to Die with Dignity association, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the entry into force of the euthanasia law on June 25.
And it places Navarra, Catalonia, La Rioja and the Basque Country in the lead, with more than one euthanasia for every thousand deaths (0.1%).
With Murcia, Galicia, Extremadura and Castilla y León at the tail, with an incidence ten times lower, with that 0.031.EFE