Virtues drama: "We were diverted to a private hospital for a mild prognosis and died two days later"

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"We were in the Infanta Leonor Hospital, public, and they told us that my grandmother had such a good prognosis that they were going to divert her to a private clinic, Asepeyo Coslada, because they would discharge her in three days. When we entered we asked, and they told us that They had plenty of ICU beds if needed. My grandmother has only gotten worse since. Three days later, when they were only going to give her morphine for pain, we asked them to put her in the ICU . no, that at that age they couldn't put her in. She died hours later. "

That of Virtudes Ortiz is not more, nor less, than another of the thousands of deaths of elderly people on the brink of Intensive Care Units that occurred in the Spain of Covid-19. With one particularity: she herself, supposedly, gave her consent to be sent from a large public center, the Infanta Sofía Hospital, in Vallecas (Madrid), to a private and smaller one, "but in reality she did not even find out what they told him, I was the one who told him, but they had already decided on the transfer, "says his grandson, Iván Jiménez.

"Theoretically nothing was going to happen to him, he was going to be discharged, he was very well, his was very slight, that's why we agreed to change," continues Ivan, "but even so when I arrived at Asepeyo I asked specifically how they were in beds ICU and respirators, and the answer was very clear: "We are very comfortable, very well, there will be no problem," they told me , but when it was necessary, two days later, they no longer had it, and they said that they could not get anyone out. from there to put my grandmother . We died soon after. This is not going to be like this, "says Iván, who has already commissioned the lawyer Carlos Sardinero, lawyer from the Association of the Patient Advocate, to file the corresponding complaints.

Did not meet the criteria to be intubated at all, did not have the conditions at all

Infanta Leonor has refused to give her version of the referral and how this newspaper and her family were told this newspaper. Asepeyo Coslada has explained, through the mouth of her medical director, Luis Cuesta, and absolutely contradicting the presumed good prognosis of the old woman, that Virtues "did not have a mild prognosis at all, in fact, a total of 69 patients arrived from. In addition, she stressed that "she did not meet the criteria to be intubated at all, she did not have the conditions at all . She was given morphine at first to help her breathe, to relax her, and then she was put up in a palliative way. And, what's more, her daughter was allowed to put on an Individual Protective Equipment and say goodbye to her. In no hospital in Madrid would they have taken her at that time, and it was also impossible to transfer her. "

'If we move it, it does not reach the elevator'

The events occurred in just five days, between April 2, when the woman was treated for the first time at her Vicente Soldevilla health center, in Madrid, and on the 7th when she died in Asepeyo Coslada, "after they denied her the ICU bed because, according to what they told us, he was 83 years old and had tension problems, and with that painting they were not going to give him a place, "says Jiménez. "At that time, we even asked if they could accept her in the ICU of a public hospital, and in one they said yes, but that the center she was in had to accept it . We went to see the director of Asepeyo Coslada, and he He denied. 'If we move it, it won't reach the elevator door,' he told us. Hours later, he died. "

Virtudes, a Vallecas resident, "a vital and independent woman, who had no health problem other than a little tension and high blood sugar ," began with symptoms of Covid-19 last March 29, but "despite the fact that we called Dozens of times "it wasn't until April 2" that I forced the doctors to go see her, even though they didn't want to. " She was transferred to her health center, where she was diagnosed with "mild pneumonia", "and they tell us to take her to the Infanta Leonor."

One day it was enough for the doctors from the Vallecano center to explain, Iván Jiménez, to warn that "my grandmother was quite well and her prognosis was very good. They told us that in two or three days they would discharge her, and that is why they it was necessary to transfer her to an Asepeyo clinic in Coslada, to open space for them . " At that time, private health was under the cloak of government command, by royal decree establishing the state of alarm.

Since they told us that he was fine and that he would be home soon, we agreed

"They told us that they had spoken to her to ask her permission to transfer her to Asepeyo Coslada, and that she had given it to her verbally. The reality is that my grandmother had not found out anything: I was the one who told her that she was going to move, "says Jiménez. "What happens is that, as they told us that he was fine and that he would be home in a short time, we agreed. In fact, there we lost the opportunity for an ICU, but at that time we couldn't know ."

When the family arrives at Asepeyo Coslada, Iván Jiménez himself, he assures, asks if there are sufficient means in case Virtudes worsens, "and they assure me that, yes, of course, they are relieved." On April 6 Virtues drastically worsens , and Iván assures that he asks the doctors if there would be a respirator if it were needed: "They say yes, don't worry."

A day later, the state of Virtudes Ortiz is close to death: "They tell us that they are giving her morphine, that they cannot do more for her. I am going to speak to the director, who tells me that it is not possible for us to they have said that they have means that they do not have , and my mother talks to the doctor, who tells her that with 83 years and her tension problems, there is no space in the ICU for her. "

Iván Jiménez continues: "We are going crazy, we look for an ICU bed in a public center and in a hospital they tell us yes, but that with the consent of Asepeyo Coslada: the director tells us not to think of it, that he will not get to the elevator door. Meanwhile, they get to call the police because my uncle and I were there asking for explanations . I even try to go out on some TV program, where I have contacts, to try to draw attention to the case and that there are solutions, but I do not succeed "At 9:00 pm on that April 7, Virtudes Ortiz, just three days earlier with a slight prognosis in the Infanta Leonor de Vallecas, died at the Asepeyo Coslada clinic.

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