The Association of Relatives and Patients of Albacete (Afepa), which has been supporting people suffering from this disease and the professionals responsible for treating it for 20 years, revealed that it had discovered a debt of “at least 300,000 euros”coming from the previous address. The economic chasm has meant that the association has “around 47 pending salaries” and several debts accumulated for expenses such as rent, electricity or social security.
The previous board of directors, led by María Dolores Játiva, had been at the helm of the association for over 14 years and resigned en masse on September 27 in the face of continued demands for transparency from members and pressure from non-payment of contributions. The association’s payroll. That’s when the partners formed the board of directors, which discovered this hole in the funds, although they suspected “there could be even more”, according to Emilio Villaseñor, door -spokesperson of the board of directors.
“We are an association which has always been solvent and which receives huge subsidies from institutions. How has it been happening in the past two years, when our income has increased?
Meanwhile, Ana Morcillo, one of the workers, regrets that the closure of the association would mean that all Parkinson’s patients in Albacete “lose the only specialized center “In this disease, the routine of their treatment and they are also left without answers about what is going to happen to them.”
