The pediatric ICU of the La Paz hospital reopens after the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid

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Updated Monday, February 12, 2024-18:03

• Courts The TSJM endorses the decision of the Community to dismiss the head of the pediatric ICU of La Paz

• Health The 'judicial truth' of the head of the Pediatric ICU of La Paz

The pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the La Paz University Public Hospital in Madrid has been reopened this Monday, a few days after the decision of the

Superior Court of Justice of Madrid

(TSJM) on the dismissal of the director of the unit, Pedro de la Oliva, accused by his subordinates of humiliating treatment and workplace harassment.

The Community of Madrid has reported the reopening of the ICU with the

incorporation of six new professionals

and with the expectation that throughout this week the operation of the unit will develop at one hundred percent.

Last Friday, the 9th, the Eighth Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TSJM revoked the resolution of the Contentious-Administrative Court number 24 that ordered the

reinstatement of De la Oliva

as head of service of the Intensive Care Unit Pediatric of La Paz.

The Pediatric ICU of La Paz had remained closed since last January 16, after all the staff doctors assigned to the service, with the sole

exception of their boss and a physician, caused medical leave or resigned

from their contracts, upon returning to work. mid-January the head of service in charge by order of the Contentious-Administrative Court 24.

The problem in the UCI began in 2020, following the

complaint of six doctors for humiliating treatment

and workplace harassment by the head of service.

It led to a

disciplinary file and a sanction of suspension

of functions for serious misconduct, which the TSJM provisionally suspended.

Last September, the

Contentious-Administrative Court

number 24 ordered the reinstatement of the chief medical officer to the service.

And in Friday's ruling, the magistrates of the TSJM uphold the appeal filed by the Community of Madrid against the resolution of this court and revoke the provisional execution of the sentence ordered by the Court of first instance, understanding

that "it was likely to cause harm."

irreparable or impossible to repair, given the more than likely resumption of the conflict that would cause the appellant to return to the head of the unit, whose operation could suffer.

After the magistrates of the TSJM have upheld the appeal filed by the Community of

Madrid, the Madrid Health Minister

has taken the opportunity to "thank justice" for having ruled in favor of the regional government and has celebrated that they can now "have a service in La Paz, again as it should be," he said.