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The Domus Vi nursing home in Alcoy has been the most affected by the pandemic in the Valencian Community. 73 older people have lost their lives in the center and the Department of Equality, directed by Vice President Mónica Oltra , has already started contacts to try to rescue the concession for public management , something that the employers did not like.

Equality has already contacted the management company to explore the return of the center to public management, as Valencia Plaza has advanced , and will hold a meeting at the end of the month with the presence also of the mayor of Alcoy, the socialist Toni Francés , according to been able to confirm The World.

"The death toll at this residence is unaffordable and the technical reports necessary to know what happened are being compiled. Because it has to have consequences," Oltra warned yesterday during her visit to Alicante.

This message has not been liked by the sector, which understands that it is intended "to take advantage of the coronavirus health crisis to try to impose a management model, " says the president of Aerte, José María Toro .

"Associating the results of the pandemic with a type of management is not doing an in-depth or rigorous analysis. There have been cases of many deaths in public residences, managed by non-profit, concerted and private organizations," recalls Toro, also highlighting that the incidence of the virus in the Valencian nursing homes has left 540 dead, but it is far from the data of other autonomies.

Despite Equality's intentions, the reversal of Domus Vi will not be easy, because it received the concession in 2002, with Rafael Blasco at the helm of the Department of Social Welfare, for a period of 45 years, of which he still has 27 before him.

In these 18 years it has passed through the hands of four companies: it was awarded to the Temporary Business Union (UTE) Sacova, formed by the construction company OHL and the Aser Services Association, in exchange for assuming the cost of rehabilitating the old Civil Hospital Oliver to house 140 places, of which 47 would be administered by the Generalitat. Given the cost of the works to be carried out in this historic building, the company was exempt from the obligation to pay an annual fee to the Generalitat

In 2015 the center was transferred to Quavitae Servicios Asistenciales for 46.7 million euros and in 2017 to the French group Casa Vita SAS, which is its current owner and manages it through its subsidiary GeriaVi SAU.

Albocàsser

The intention to reverse the management of the Alcoy residence is the second that occurs during the Botàic government. In 2018, the Valencian Institute of Social-Health Care (IVASS), which is dependent on Equality, took over the management of the specific Center for people with mental illness (CEEM) in Albocàsser, which had been in private hands since 2014.

In Oltra's words, public management had implied "the improvement of its services and facilities and forced the quality of care of the center", a position that Aerte does not share. "There was never a prior evaluation of the situation there, nor was there any thought of putting the management out to tender, if the company that existed was not doing it well. But now we have no reports that assess whether the service has improved greatly since that the reversal was made, "says Toro, to whom these operations generate" many doubts. "

after ending the existing contract with the company, which had been managing it since 2014.

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