• Health. Daily sabotage campaign against the new Isabel Zendal Hospital

  • Health: Hospital Isabel Zendal cares for 77 patients and there are already 504 health workers after joining another hundred

The Isabel Zendal Nurse Hospital

has installed video surveillance cameras in essential areas of the center to prevent sabotage

that could affect the overall operation of the center.

A decision taken after the boycott acts suffered during the last three weeks.

The managing director Fernando Prados pointed out yesterday: «

The cameras are only in specific points.

The security department has requested permission to place them in enclaves such as the control zone, since we do not want to

s having sabotage of something essential to the functioning of the hospital.

However, Prados pointed out that he resists professionals having to "submit to a Big Brother" and pointed out: "we are not going to put cameras all over the hospital to see who enters and who leaves."

In addition, surveillance has been reinforced with up to 17 security employees and inspections and rounds of the guards have been increased at critical points where intentional damages have been registered. Yesterday it was also known that the management of the Isabel Zendal Hospital

will report today to the National Police the sabotages that have occurred for at least three weeks

in the health center.

The security department is finalizing a report that will be sent to the agents to investigate the perpetrators of these boycotts, which at no time have put the 1,000 patients who have passed through the center at risk. Since its opening, the Isabel Zendal Hospital It has been highly criticized by various unions and platforms that questioned the forced transfer of professionals from other health centers to the new campus.

Both the Association of Higher Physicians and Graduates and the Madrid Nursing Association regretted the efforts that had been made in the Zendal hospital, claiming that they could have been used to provide the rest of the hospitals and health centers with more personnel and resources.

In parallel, the regional president praised the Isabel Zendal Emergency Hospital, built in record time, and denounced a campaign against the center encouraged by the parties of the left. The managing director of the hospital, Fernando Prados,

yesterday defended the 1,400 hospital workers,

although he acknowledged that there have been strange events that he had never seen in any health center.

«That so many strange things happen, like unplugging three thermoses at the same time, is no accident.

We believe that it is a performance that is carried out from within and that responds to an orchestrated plan against the hospital, "he said.

Plugs disconnected,

clogged pipes with pajamas or soakers

, cut cables and broken switches have been the unusual events that have been repeated in the medical center inaugurated on December 1.

In addition, parts of cardiac arrest resuscitation carts such as laryngoscopes and parts of some ventilators have been stolen.

«The stolen has no other use than hospitable and cannot be resold.

All it does is disable the devices, "said Prados.

The situation has forced to insert some plugs inside the wall

, but even so, at least one cable from a hot water supply has been cut.

"Most of our workers are very professional, but there is always someone who in an isolated way can cause these things," said Prados

Leak

On January 24, in an email to which this newspaper had access, a hospital security agent denounced to the management "an important water leak", "pipe jams" and "water cuts that were not normal ».

That day, a large water leak was discovered that fell from the false ceiling of the ward 2 guard room "creating a large pool of water that spread towards the entrance and the corridor."

When the maintenance services went to check the toilets on the upper floor, they found the tap in the handicapped sink open to the maximum.

At 12:30 p.m. several notices of blocked pipes, leaks and water cuts were received at the same time

in various areas of the hospital.

Technicians discovered that someone had tampered with the keys and found several toilets clogged by soakers.

"Most of our workers are very professional, but there is always someone who in isolation can cause these things," said Prados, who also admitted that there were also very unusual things with the food. The complaint at the police station, which the Ministry intends to present today, is pending the stolen material, necessary to inventory with code and registration number so that in the event that it appears it can be located.

I just hope

whoever is behind all this sees the significance of what happened and does not repeat itself again

», The manager pointed out.

The PP asks that the sabotages be condemned

The spokesman for the PP of the Madrid Assembly, Alfonso Serrano, said yesterday regarding the sabotage suffered by the Isabel Zendal Nurse Hospital, that "

those who do not condemn the sabotage in the Zendal will be accomplices ".

"It's a shame, I thought that in Zendal there were two types of people, on the one hand, patients and on the other, health workers, but no, a third has joined,

those who sabotage the facilities,

that not only with this they want to denounce an alleged failure of the same, but they put the lives of patients at risk, "he said." Today we hear the Madrid left talking about Zendal but none condemning these serious events that today have been denounced by some media, therefore, the silence of the left makes them accomplices of these issues, "said Serrano. The PP spokesman said that"

the rabble who carry out these sabotage deserve the contempt of all the people of Madrid,

the condemnation of all parliamentary groups and, of course, an investigation. "" Defending public health is choosing who you are with, or you are with those who try to save the lives of Zendal patients or you are with those who try to boycott the praiseworthy work that health professionals do in each of the region's hospitals, "concluded Serrano.

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