The Court of Instruction number 3 of Collado Villalba asked the company that operates a retirement home for documents on the staff, the training of workers and the medical equipment that was in the retirement home at the start of the operation . pandemic in the context of one of the cases in which possible negligence is being investigated due to the non-referral of patients to hospitals.
This is indicated by an order, to which Europa Press had access, in which the magistrate accepts a series of procedures requested by the PSOE, including the summoning of two doctors as witnesses. One of them is the head of the geriatrics department at the Rey Juan Carlos Hospital in Madrid.
The complaint that gave rise to the case and to part of the relatives of a deceased in a residence at the start of the pandemic is directed against the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and former councilors Enrique López and Enrique Ruiz Escudero for the alleged commission of the crime of reckless homicide.
A year ago, the Provincial Court of Madrid ordered the court to reopen this procedure by confirming the appeal filed by the family against the filing of the file, insisting on the execution of the necessary procedures to determine whether or not there is evidence of the above. crime.
Concretely, it is agreed on the testimony of two doctors, for whom the procedural representation of the popular action is required to provide within 5 days the name and first name of the said doctors, their address and their telephone number.
Likewise, Sanitas Mayores is requested to bring to the file the inventory of medical supplies existing in the residence at the time of the events, as well as the inventory of medications and respirators at the time of the events in the automobile residence.
It also requires staff work schedules at the time of the events, number of workers, training and qualifications, as well as protocols for isolating deceased residents and checklists.
The judge also requires data on the ratios provided for by the regulations and those in force at the time of the events, in relation to the number of residents and staff, as well as the accreditation of staff with training in palliative care, the accreditation of their working hours. months and accreditation of the existing medical supply to supply these medicines.
For now, there are already 25 procedures closed for deaths of elderly people due to Covid in public residences in the Community of Madrid, because the commission of a crime has not been proven in relation to the guidance protocols patients to hospitals in the first wave. of the pandemic.
