«My father has passed the coronavirus and they want to discharge him even though they have told us that he can spread it for the next 15 days. Before admission, she was independent, she managed with her chair and lived alone, but now she is very weak and needs help 24 hours a day, and oxygen, and they do not offer me any medicalized residence or hotel to enter it. I don't know what I'm going to do. I live with my two year old daughter. I do not understand how in these circumstances they discharge him, risking that my daughter or I will get infected ». This is the desperate request for help from Cristina Cop, who has been knocking on all the doors for several days after the Hospital Rey Juan Carlos de Móstoles informed her that she is going to discharge her father, Vicente, 77, without offer you another socio-sanitary resource, after overcoming the Covid-19 in a battle without quarter.

"He was very ill, he had very severe pneumonia and we were told that he was dying. Before entering the hospital, he was self-reliant, but now he needs help even to move in bed, as well as to change his diapers. I have asked that they either extend his stay or give him some recourse so that he can fully recover, but nothing. He tells us to take him like this and they don't even give me a mask to protect myself, much less a protection team , when he continues to be positive, "denounces Cristina about her father's situation.

Vicente, who has a recognized degree of dependency two, was infected by the social worker who came to her home every day to make her food "because her company, which works for the Community of Madrid, gave her no protection, it seems. Her and other colleagues. "A week after she took it, my father was sick," she recalls.

After overcoming his father the virus in the hospital, he has found that neither the doctors who treated him nor the center's social worker give him a solution. “The doctor told us yesterday [on Monday] that because they need beds they cannot do anything else, when there are currently beds available in the hospital. I am going to denounce this situation because it affects all the dependent people », he appreciates.

According to Cristina, the doctor advised him to take him home and isolate him in a room, but he wonders how he can do it if his father needs permanent attention. "How am I going to isolate my father if he needs to have his diaper changed or his bed moved? And on top of that, they won't give me a mask", asks Cristina, tired of calling all the "many possible" to see if they give you a solution.

"I have called the Móstoles social emergency, the Community of Madrid ...", he says.

"Neither in the Community nor anywhere do they help us because day hospitals for these types of patients do not take infected patients ... paradoxically, if you are dependent and from the most fragile group you have no help although we are listening all day long than staying at home mainly because of our elders and the most vulnerable people », reasons Cristina, who has found that all the public resources that could serve her father close the door in her face. Thus, he relates, in day hospitals, medium or long stay, such as that of La Poveda, "they do not catch anyone if they did not live in a residence before", in peripheral hospital units "they only admit patients without oxygen" , and only dependent patients enter medicalized hotels, since "they leave food or medicines at the door for them to take." "It is very unfair to dependent people like my father," he concludes.

From the hospital they insist that the patient is still in the center and assure that they are "looking for solutions" for this patient. Thus, according to a hospital spokeswoman, today he is going to transfer his "case to care management to see if" he gets "a place" for him.

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