When Isabel Díaz Ayuso said in the Assembly that “many older people when he went to hospitals also died” he was right, but obvious that Madrid marked a record of deaths in residences of seniors, prevented in writing transferring hospitals to those who had physical or cognitive dependence and did not medicalize these centers, leaving them in health precariousness. All this focused thousands of people to die without the basic care that others did, according to collective discrimination claim presented by 109 families in October and just given their first fruits in a court in Madrid.
This Friday has been made public that the Court of Instruction number 3 has opened a case to know if there was a discrimination in the health benefit to a person who lived in a center of seniors. And that individual case opens hope to other families. Until now, no complaint had thrown out that death was due to the fact that he had not moved to the hospital to the person – something very difficult to prove, the so -called causal link – so that the massive complaint was filed for another crime, the denial of a benefit for discriminatory reasons, punished in article 511 of the Criminal Code. It has associated prison sentences from six months to two years and a fine of 12 to 24 months and disqualification for those who deny a public service for reasons, among others, “of the disease that suffers or its disability.”
In this context, the judge has called to declare on Monday for the first time as investigated to two sanitary managers of the Government of Ayuso, two former high positions. The first of them is Carlos Mur, who was for eight months Director General of Socio -health coordination and who signed all the different versions of the so -called “protocols of shame”, which established who could or may not be transferred to a hospital and who stopped the derivation of dependents, except for those who had private insurance or lived in their home. Mur was fulminantly dismissed two months after the protocols, in the middle of the pandemic, and after starting relatives of family members.
The concern about the judicial consequences that the protocols could have in the Ayuso government was developed from the beginning, as the former social policy councilor Alberto Reyero (Citizens), who left the government after the worst of the pandemic. As you tell in your book They will die unworthy He was located at a meeting with the Minister of Health, the Justice – Enrique López, former Magistrate – and the legal head of the Assembly to address possible legal actions by the protocols: “There was a fear that there were judicial problems by the protocols. They talked about legally assembling the defense or something for the style.”
Mur was replaced in May 2020 by Francisco Javier Martínez Peromingo, who until that moment was a geriatrician in the hospitals managed by Quirón, one of the main concessionaires in Madrid health, and, according to Mur, author of other drafts of the protocols and intervening in the drafting of them since that position despite the fact that at that time he was out of the chain of command of the Ministry. It is precisely the other investigated that will have to declare in court on Monday with Mur. In July 2023, Perombus left the Regional Government of Ayuso to become Chief of Geriatrics of the Chiron flagship in Madrid: the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, where his work continues today, and which is one of the most profitable private hospitals in Europe, thanks to the money he receives from the Community of Madrid.
The counselor knew the protocols
Mur’s version about what happened is known because he declared a witness in a case that was finally archived, as well as in the Research Commission of the Madrid Assembly, which closed as soon as the Popular Party had the necessary votes for it. Mur, today Head of Mental Health in the Government of Andorra, said in his appearance before the deputies to the perombus himself as the person who coordinated with 18 Geriatrics the text he subsequently signed. He also directly pointed to his superiors as connoisseurs of the protocols, since he spoke with them “every day”, as well as the Minister of Health then, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, who said that of course he was knowledgeable about what was being done. Escudero, today a senator of the PP, has tried to stay out of the entire controversy of the residences and has not wanted to give statements or explanations, except for several agreed interviews to defend their management in the context of the issuance of the documentary 7291 A Tve.
The two associations of victims of residences, tide of residences and 7291: truth and justice, They have shown their hope that both former high positions tell who made the decision to relegate the greatest residences of health care that others did have: “that they tell that truth and reveal what the implication of the then Minister of Health and of the Ayuso itself in the decisions adopted by the regional government that had a brutal impact on the life of many residents”, they trust.
Although Carlos Mur as a witness had the obligation to tell the truth and now as investigated he may not say it, legal sources require that the pressure that a trial can be opened against him can be an incentive to involve other people or count some novelty, especially since he is disconnected from the Madrid government, he works in another country and his departure was abrupt, which induces to think that his relations with the government of Ayuso are not sufficiently good enough to protect the hard core of the President. In his statement as a witness in 2023, Mur pointed to the residences and hospitals: according to the protocol, he joined criteria, it was a guide, but it was these centers that saw case by case what decisions were made and made. He also said Ayuso and confirmed that the protocol was not a “draft,” as the leader had said.
The case of Perombo is something different. He was from the beginning involved with the protocols, of which there were six versions and causing diverse health groups causing, and in their few public demonstrations he has defended the documents, in addition to the fact that he remains linked to the Government of Madrid as a boss in one of the most important privatized hospitals in the region. He was also called to declare the Madrid Assembly in the 2021 Investigation Commission. There, he defended the work of the link geriatricians (to whom he also points the collective lawsuit) and insisted that these protocols were not discriminatory, something that has now begun to investigate the Court 3 of Madrid, which will collect evidence to decide whether or not it takes the case to trial. For the first time, it is imputed to high positions, since in the previous judicial actions it has been called doctors, Geriatras or the directions of the residences.
In addition to this death in a residence, whose circumstances and details have not transcended, and that is the first that has a judicial tour of those presented by discrimination, there are 92 procedures related to complaints or complaints that alleged that same crime: “Some are still pending that the courts decide on their admission, while there are five causes that have already reached the Provincial Court, after the resources presented by the complaants or complainants After the Instruction Courts reject investigating the facts denounced, ”said the legal team that defends families.
Eldiario.es has tried to contact Mur, Perombo and former Health Counselor Ruiz Escudero without having obtained response at the moment.
Source: www.eldiario.es
