• Covid-19.The Community of Madrid enables a morgue in the City of Justice of Valdebebas
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The Community of Madrid is going to relaunch the City of Justice of Valdebebas by auctioning off the donut- shaped building - used as a morgue during the Covid-19 pandemic - so that it can come into operation in November. The only one of the 15 projected avant-garde venues to be built in the ill-fated project devised under the command of Esperanza Aguirre- will be moved to the Forensic Anatomical Institute , which will abandon its dilapidated facilities at Ciudad Universitaria.

The Governing Council of Isabel Díaz Ayuso will approve this Wednesday a game of 4.3 million euros to complete the pending actions, such as the installation of the autopsy tables. The complex will have a specific biosafety room where post-mortem examinations can be carried out on deaths from contagious diseases with all the guarantees for professionals.

"In addition to being a European benchmark in the matter, it will be the symbol of the area where in the future all the real estate infrastructures of the Madrid Judicial Party will be concentrated and will generate synergy with the new infection hospital that is going to be built on a farm border to combat the Covid-19 », explains the Minister of Justice, Interior and Victims, Enrique López.

Although the works were paralyzed more than a decade ago by the economic crisis, they will now be resumed through the "emergency" procedure . In the Executive of Puerta del Sol they justify it for "the alerts launched by the international and national health authorities about the risk of outbreaks of Covid-19 in the coming months."

This contracting system allows direct work to a company without the need to call a public tender, although in the Ministry of Justice they specify that they have chosen to invite 10 of the country's main construction companies to participate in the process, among which Dragados has been selected . The list of candidates also included OHL and Acciona, who denounced the Community of Madrid in 2015 for giving up the second attempt to build this judicial city despite having been awarded the works.

Just before the outbreak of the pandemic, on March 3, the Supreme Court agreed with the regional Executive that then presided over Cristina Cifuentes in its decision to park the realization of that development. This has allowed the current government team to "rethink, redesign and launch a new headquarters concentration project " that is already being worked on, but which is currently unknown from the name with which it will be baptized to the calendar. of execution of the works.

The only date that has been set today is the transfer to the donut of the recently created Institute of Legal Medicine, in which the Forensic Anatomy is integrated, once it is conditioned within a maximum period estimated at three and a half months. The building, with an area of ​​13,500 square meters and eight floors, will have 53 autopsy tables and cold rooms with a capacity of up to 225 bodies .

Morgue for 600 corpses

These facilities, which until the start of the pandemic had remained without any use whatsoever , came to host more than 600 deaths with Covid-19 during the weeks with the highest mortality from the virus. For its use as an emergency morgue, only an investment of 40,000 euros was necessary to guarantee the electrical supply of the existing units for the conservation of the bodies.

According to the Community, the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valdebebas will have a "leading role" in "the expansion of the northeast area of ​​the capital, with an epidemic hospital next to it, the expansion of Ifema, the new terminal of the Adolfo Suárez airport Madrid Barajas and some transport infrastructures that, with a new branch on Line 8 of the metro, will improve mobility and communication in this pole of attraction for the region's legal, economic and residential activity ».

The Government of Aguirre invested at least 100 million euros for the implementation of the City of Justice in 2004, which was bogged down just five years after the plans were drawn up. In this third attempt to promote a project that was devised to unify the dispersed judicial offices of the Madrid region, some aspects of the two previous versions will be retaken, although the Ministry of Enrique López is already advancing that it will be a «different proposal ».

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