The Seville Provincial Prosecutor's Office has closed the investigation into the alleged "intentional deletion" of mammograms by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), concluding that no crime was committed and that the accusations by the Seville Breast Cancer Women's Association (AMAMA) lack technical and legal basis. No evidence was found that the rescheduling of studies or the substitution of ultrasounds for mammograms were the result of arbitrary or irregular acts. The failure occurred in the citizen query module but did not affect the PACS system, which stores and manages the radiological images used by healthcare professionals. The eight-page fiscal decree completely dismantles the complaint filed by AMAMA, which claimed that women affected by the previous error in the screening program had their studies disappear from the ClickSalud platform. All actions analyzed—according to the Public Prosecutor—were carried out in accordance with usual clinical criteria. The investigation, which lasted for over a month, verified that there was no destruction or alteration of medical images, but only a temporary system outage caused by server saturation due to the avalanche of access requests from patients seeking to consult their studies. Technicians confirmed that the outage was limited to external access and did not compromise the integrity of the radiological records. The complaint from the Patient's Ombudsman, which suggested a potential destruction of clinical documents, was also unsupported after the expert reports. None of the hypotheses raised—from infidelity in document custody to crimes against privacy—found support in the IT audit. With this ruling, the Prosecutor's Office closes one of the most sensitive controversies generated after the initial failure of the screening program, which had delayed the communication of results to a group of women.
