The SAS awards the Head of Day Surgery at Miguel Servet

The Management Directorate of the Aragonese Health Service (SAS) has awarded the position of Head of Section of the Ambulatory Day Surgery Unit of the Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Service of the “Miguel Servet” University Hospital in Zaragoza to Miguel Ángel García Enguita. The resolution, signed on September 28, 2026, is published in the Official Gazette of Aragon number 199, dated October 14, 2026, with the reference BOA20261014003. The appointment is temporary and has a duration of four years.

The designation is part of the selection process convened by the Resolution of December 9, 2025, of the Management Directorate of the SAS, published in the Official Gazette of Aragon number 246, dated December 22, 2025, under Decree 37/2011, of March 8, of the Government of Aragon, regarding the selection of statutory personnel and the filling of vacancies in the centers of the Aragonese Health Service.

The process consisted of two phases and concluded with the proposal of the specialized technical evaluation Commission, meeting on September 21, 2026. The resolution is based on articles 67 and 68 of Decree 37/2011, on the seventh and eighth bases of the call, and on the competence attributed to the Management Directorate by article 62 of the same regulation.

A unit leadership in the largest Aragonese hospital

The awarded position corresponds to the Ambulatory Day Surgery Unit of the Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Service of the “Miguel Servet” University Hospital, a reference center for public health in Aragon located in Zaragoza. The position is filled on a temporary basis through a selection procedure among statutory personnel, and its filling impacts the internal organization of the Anesthesiology service.

Four-year mandate and competency evaluation

• Temporary nature of the appointment, with a duration of four years.
• Possibility of continuity for similar periods if the interested party passes the evaluation provided for in article 69 of Decree 37/2011.
• Reduction of the tenure period if, before its term, termination is appropriate due to any of the causes provided for in current regulations.
• Evaluation of the selected person’s managerial competencies by the center’s management, in collaboration with the Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences, to establish the appropriate managerial training plan.
• Signing of a four-year clinical management agreement for the healthcare unit, based on the project presented, the development and fulfillment of which will be taken into account in the final evaluation.

Deadline for taking office and administrative appeal

The designated physician must take office in the position within one month from the day following the publication of the resolution in the Official Gazette of Aragon.

Against the resolution, which does not exhaust administrative remedies, an appeal (recurso de alzada) may be filed before the head of the Department of Health within one month, pursuant to Article 48.3 of the Recast Text of the Law of the Aragonese Health Service, approved by Legislative Decree 2/2004, of December 30, and Article 64.2 of Law 5/2021, of June 29, on the Organization and Legal Regime of the Autonomous Public Sector of Aragon.

The resolution is signed in Zaragoza by the Managing Director of the Aragonese Health Service, José Ignacio Castaño Lasaosa. The filling of this section head position comes nearly ten months after the call for the selection process and directly affects the organization of the Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Service of the largest Aragonese hospital, which thus gains a stable manager for its ambulatory surgery unit.

Source: Official Gazette of Aragon, number 199, of October 14, 2026, II. Authorities and Personnel, a) Appointments, situations and incidents (official reference: BOA20261014003).