• Consequences: The Generalitat is preparing to regain public management of the Alcoy residence with the deadliest outbreak of coronavirus
  • Controversy.Oltra assures that in the nursing home in Alcoy an "insane situation" was experienced

The Ministry of Health of the Generalitat Valenciana placed the front of the health intervention to stop the deadly outbreak of coronavirus in the Domus Vi residence in Alcoy, which claimed the lives of 73 elders from the doctor himself who was working in the nursing home. This doctor, who also works in the Emergency Department of the Virgen de los Lirios Hospital, was the person designated by the General Directorate of Human Resources and Healthcare "at the proposal of the Alcoy Health department" as responsible for the management of the "activity care in the center " .

According to the resolution of March 18 by which the intervention of toilets in all residences where there are cases of Covid is agreed, this person in charge would have "the material and human resources required to take charge of adequate health care" for the greater. In the majority of more than 80 residences in which Health assumed command during the pandemic, the designated person was either the head of Primary of the basic health area or the head of the Home Hospitalization Unit of the reference center. "They are those who have the capacity to mobilize resources and experience in treatment outside of hospitals," health sources explain to El Mundo.

In Alcoy it was not like that. The geriatric doctor was chosen despite the fact that they had been unable to contain the virus. The first Covid case recognized for residency occurs on March 13 . Three days later, the outbreak is declared, with seven residents killed by coronavirus, three confirmed and four by epidemiological link. As stated in a report signed on May 25 by the manager of the Health Department and incorporated into the intervention file, the Occupational Risk Prevention Service visits the residence and reports deficiencies in non-compliance with Health protocols: there were no spaces for the isolation of positive cases , disinfection had not been carried out in some areas and the distribution of the elderly on the three floors of the residence was not adequate to try to stop the chain of infection. With the residence operated, and with the center doctor in charge and 13 deaths, all residents undergo PCR: 102 of the 127 test positive . In addition, 19 workers were on leave.

UHD report

The succession of deaths does not cease in Domus Vi. As of April 1, there are already 44 deaths and problems isolating the 17 residents with no symptoms. On April 6, when the death toll is already 55, the head of the Home Hospitalization Unit, Manuel Pérez Bosch submits a letter to the manager of the Health Department requesting help and detailing the "absolute lack of coordination" of the medical service of the own residence , led by the same person designated by Health to direct the "active surveillance".

Pérez Bosch describes "continued interference in the treatments" , "systematic failure to comply with the rules for the isolation of covid patients, holding meetings with numerous patients" and lack of assistance, which led the UHD to find two residents dead without knowledge of the Domus Vi physicians " . According to the head of this unit, a doctor hired as a backup by the center, and fired two weeks later, came to prescribe " paramedicine treatments to patients in charge of the UHD." "The pressures of organization of operation and compliance with protocols, making it difficult and overloading in an unsustainable way the only function of this UHD, which is healthcare," he summarizes.

The response to this complaint by the center was to deny that paramedicine treatments were applied and to allude to the fact that the control of the residence was of Health since March 18 and that the coordinating doctor was responsible, without specifying that this doctor appointed by Health was the one who already had the residence contracted. And it remained as such until the residence stopped being operated on May 11, with 73 deaths.

Open civil proceedings

What failed in this nursing home to concentrate the highest mortality in the entire residential network? The Prosecutor's Office keeps civil proceedings open , the relatives will seek answers in the courts and the Department of Equality and Inclusive Policy, headed by the Vice President of the Generalitat, Mónica Oltra , has announced its intention to regain public management of this nursing home, in the hands of a French multinational with a 45-year concession, for the "crazy situation".

However, the employers Aerte, who has already pointed to the referral protocols to the hospital , and the municipal group of the PP in the City of Alcoy look to Health. "The data we know now shows that the intervention was fictitious, facing the gallery. The Ministry of Health consented to a situation of dramatic lack of control despite the fact that the deaths occurred daily. By not taking action, it contributed to the spread of the virus It is incomprehensible that he appointed the same company doctor as coordinator instead of assuming full control of the nursing home, as required by one of the worst outbreaks of Covid in all of Spain. The Generalitat contributed to maintaining chaos in the residence, because Despite assuming management, nobody coordinated anything there, "denounces popular spokesman Enrique Ruiz Doménech .

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