A Court of Madrid has first charged high sanitary positions of the Community of Madrid during the pandemic to respond for non -derivation protocols in the residences of the elderly in the first weeks of the Coronavirus crisis. A judge, after a lawsuit of dozens of relatives, has called to declare Carlos Mur, signatory of the protocols as a socio -health coordinator of the administration of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and another position that signed later protocols.
Mur had been called to declare as a witness in several reasons open by courts of the Community of Madrid and who have subsequently finished archived. Until now, the judges have granted that the protocols could be confused and have criticized their implementation but have refused to demand criminal responsibilities to their authors. One of these magistrates has come to describe these protocols as “debatable”, even if it will not consider them criminal.
The decision of the Court number three of Madrid to reopen this case has arrived after a request from the Prosecutor’s Office promoted by the claim of 109 relatives of deceased. They are charged with a crime of denial of health care due to age, article 511 of the Criminal Code imposes sentences of up to two years of prison in the most serious cases.
The second accused together with Mur is the high position that happened to him in his position after his departure from the Community of Madrid: Francisco Javier Martínez Peromingo, his substitute in office when he was ceased on May 13, 2020.
Mur has already appeared in several causes related to deaths in residences in Madrid, although always as a witness until now, to give explanations for the protocols: to date he has defended that the ultimate application of the protocols was in the hands of the health and hospital coordinators under medical criteria. Also that the protocols were launched so that the workers of the residences, one of the largest points in the region, had a guide in their performance.
According to the families of those affected for a five -year, these protocols supposed, in practice, the prohibition of deriving hospitals where, they understand, they would have been better attended and had had more possibilities to survive the virus.
From the tide of residences and truth and justice, two organizations that bring together hundreds of affected and that have promoted several of these judicial causes, celebrate the imputation of these two high health positions of the Community of Madrid during the Pandemia. “So far the judicial instructions had never been directed against them. All judicial investigations carried out so far focused on directors or doctors of the residences, but never in those who elaborated, dictated and applied the protocols or who made the decisions not to medalize the residences,” they say in a statement.
Source: www.eldiario.es
