Relatives of 115 people admitted to public residences in 2020 presented this Thursday to the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of the Community of Madrid a collective complaint with unpublished evidence so that investigate “discrimination suffereda” during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shouting “Ayuso, listen, we continue the fight” and “These are not deaths, they are murders”around twenty people gathered in front of the Prosecutor’s Office, after presenting the trial, promoted by the associations ‘Marea de Residencias’ and ‘7.291: Truth and Justice for Victims in the Residences’.
In the document presented, the plaintiffs included unpublished evidence, which they described as “absolutely relevant”, as was the case of certain reports in which the “need for staff” appears, from the 72 residences where the 115 victims Based on this complaint, they declared on April 7, 2020 that they needed 37 doctors, 146 nurses and 756 gardeners.
On the other hand, they provided another document showing that the decision to prohibit the transfer of residents to hospitals began to be applied on March 13, 2020, five days before the approval of the so-called “Protocol of Shame”.
Likewise, it includes a report from the Ministry of Health itself, in response to a request from the Transparency Portal, which certifies that the order for medicalization of residences was never executed.
This complaint was filed against the two directors of Socio-health coordination of the Government of Madrid During the first wave of the pandemic, Carlos Mur and Francisco Javier Martínez Peromingo, who in turn were signatories and authors of the two protocols that prevented the transfer of Madrid residents to hospitals.
Also among the accused are Pablo Busca Ostalaza, then director of SUMMA 112; Antonio Burgueño, author of Shock plan against the pandemicapproved by the regional government, which included the so-called medicalization of residences, and the geriatricians responsible for applying the Protocol of Shame in the 25 public hospitals of Madrid.
During the day, Carmen López, member of Marea de Residencias, asked the public prosecutor’s office to “be investigated once and for all” and to “recover the rest of the documents”, in addition to those provided by the plaintiffs.
