Servicio Gallego de Salúd, known as “SERGAS” (“Galician Health Service”) is a government institution founded in 1989 to provide public health services in the region of Galicia, Spain. Since 1991, as part of the Spanish government´s decentralization policy, SERGAS has built and integrated a total of 319 primary care units and hospitals.

The Galician Health System encompasses all of the resources, functions, activities, services and provisions aimed at taking care of citizen health. It involves actions to promote and protect health, prevent disease and provide healthcare and rehabilitation. The Galician Health Service (SERGAS) has run the Health System since 1991.

The Galician hospital network consists of 7 hospital complexes, 2 general hospitals, 6 regional hospitals and a medium-stay hospital (32 hospitals altogether), with the following provincial distribution:
These hospitals cover an assigned population of 2,647,746 inhabitants, divided into 11 health districts. Each hospital provides healthcare for a specific population, without detriment to the reference hospitals in certain specialities.