Ana Dávila: "The criticism of the left in Madrid with the residences is solely and exclusively to do political damage"

Pablo R. Roces Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, February 26, 2024-00:00

Let's start with the burned residence.

Is the Community of Madrid responsible? This unfortunate event is under police investigation and a judge will determine if there was any responsibility.

We will provide everything that is required of us and we will appear as a private prosecutor if it is proven that there has been negligence.

In April and August we carried out two inspections and it was found that the center had the annual maintenance certificate for fire protection equipment and systems in force. This is added to the situation in the pandemic, which now the left has returned to the debate for its protocols. It is more of a purely political accusation than of any other nature because since the pandemic began in the Community of Madrid everything humanly possible was done to save every life.

We follow a clinical line of action, including social and health care, that has continued over time with many satisfactory opinions from residents, family members or professionals such as those from the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Even the judicial side has supported it by filing up to 19 cases, the last one last week.

So I limit it to a criticism solely and exclusively to do political damage. If they consider that everything is correct, why have they resorted to Transparency's request to show the minutes to an individual? A PSOE deputy already had access to those minutes and It is a purely administrative issue.

There is a lot of documentation to anonymize and it is not easy to offer it in such a limited time.

There has been no desire to hide information. If they were shown to a representative, why not to that individual? I understand that because anonymization is difficult, it is documentation that is highly protected by the Data Protection Law and that requires a lot of time. The records of the Municipal Police point to serious cases of neglect.

Were the inmates neglected?

All the professionals at each center did their best to serve them.

Taking into account the different moments of the pandemic, it could have been more or less complicated, but there were always permanent communication channels between residences, hospitals and primary centers.

Is there a problem with the residence model?

Should it be reviewed?

We are at a point of transformation towards a model that will be based on people's freedom of choice, whether they want to live in a center or at home with the necessary support, with increasingly advanced telecare.

The residential model is also changing, we have already launched a public consultation for a new accreditation order so that the centers are smaller and more similar to a home so that it can be implemented at the end of the year.

Should the model tend to ensure that older people are at home? We are working on an active aging strategy together with the Ministries of Health and Digitalization to observe predictive factors and make the population dependent as late as possible.

We know that the vast majority want to stay at home and that is why we are going to provide them with support with advanced telecare.

In addition, 450 professionals, physiotherapists, nurses, psychologists... will have permanent contact with the user and their family. At what point are the new food contracts in the residences that were proposed for this first quarter? The food quality and the establishment of menus adapted to the needs of older people.

Everything continues at its own pace, although there may be some type of resource through which minimum extensions would be made.

ANGEL NAVARRETE

Do you consider the quality of that food to be acceptable so far? We have been increasing a lot in quality, because we take into account what is transferred to us and we have also considerably reduced the number of complaints. We have seen cases of rotten food.

Should we act by withdrawing the concession in these situations? Rotten food has never been put on the users' plates. Photos have been seen, counselor. One thing is that in the warehouses or upon arrival at the centers some type of food had to be returned defective, but in no case does that food go to the kitchens.

When there is an arrival that is deficient, mechanisms are put in place so that companies respond and violations are applied. President Ayuso has established her birth plan as a cornerstone of her political action. Right now we have the most ambitious program in Europe, in just over a year 20,000 applications have arrived and some 16,000 women are already benefiting.

It is having a very positive impact on our indices although it is still too early to determine.

These aids are for those under 30 years of age. Have you considered raising that age given that motherhood has been delayed to around 35? All aid includes a prior study of the target population, of what the needs of a woman are. at certain ages.

Before 30, one of the main ones is economic.

But it is true that women become mothers later and later and that is why we apply fertility plans, because there are other difficulties at a certain age when it comes to becoming mothers.

In the period between 30 and 35, isn't there that economic problem? What I would say is that the economic difficulties of being mothers are greater until the age of 30.

From the age of 30, women begin to have more economic capacity and other difficulties arise. Which ones? This is a sociological issue, but I believe that there is a social situation that leads us women to think more about having children. .

Women are very demanding, we tend to train exhaustively and that also delays the age of becoming mothers.

We want to study our careers, have a professional future, be autonomous... and that makes the decision difficult.

The experience that I have is that we decide to be mothers when we already have professional stability. What you are suggesting is that being a mother is no longer a priority or that it has dropped down the list of priorities? It is my opinion based on what I live by. around.

We have prioritized training, finishing our degrees, getting a job... and then being mothers.

ANGEL NAVARRETE

Let's move on to immigration, has a message of hatred towards migrants spread as a result of the massive arrival and relocation in Alcalá? Madrid under no circumstances rejects immigration, in the last ten years one million people have come from outside They live with us.

There are never problems with integration or adaptation to the environment, I see every day how work is done in the centers and both professionals and internal staff make the integration as friendly as possible.

In our neighborhoods we live together without conflict. In that case, why did they propose closing the Batán center and then back down? In 2023 we received an average arrival of 77 new minors per month and only between January 1 and 15 In February we received 601 new ones in our centers.

Thus we have had to have all the possible places activated or activate more.

That is why we ask the Government for information so that we do not have to act so quickly because that has an impact on the administration. Without that pressure, would they have closed it as the neighbors demand? With the minors who are in our Casa de Campo center, It works on integration from the first moment and they come very willing, wanting to train, to learn the language... I have seen it with my eyes.

People may think that the perception of insecurity is due to the minors at the center, but it doesn't have to.

We have assessed the situation and with the current pressure and we need this resource, which works very well and is a success of integration. Therefore, it denies that there is insecurity. I believe that there is no security problem with these minors, there may have been some more conflictive but like in other centers whether foreigners or not.

Among the minors there are some with behavioral disorders, but you have to work quickly to find the ideal resource.

There will be some behavioral problem, but as happens with any adolescent, whether foreign or Spanish, it is handled by the center's professionals. What failure did you consider to exist in the Trans and LGTBI laws to undertake its reform? Precisely the attention to minors, establishing a Good monitoring or accompaniment system taking into account technical criteria. Are you aware of any problems in this regard? There are some experiences worldwide of transition in minors that were later determined to be not the decision they wanted to make.

Scientific publications talk about these profiles because in adolescence they are more vulnerable and feel more unstable and have been forced to change their sex due to not having adequate support.

We believe that we have arrived in time for this to happen in Spain. Psychologists tell children and adolescents a lot, that they are very impetuous, that they have to learn to wait when making decisions, weigh them well, and get help from their families. ...

They are taking that measure without having received those cases, so in my experience as a psychologist it is a matter of maturity and it is the professionals who can determine the optimal moment to make that decision or even to begin that transition.

I have seen some cases in the media and here one has come to the Ministry through an association of parents who have this circumstance in their home. In the draft of the Family Law that they are preparing, it was established to give greater autonomy to the parents. parents in the education of their children.

Are you proposing a kind of parental pin? We have always defended that parents have the freedom to choose what education they want for their children, we must resume the role of the family, which perhaps had become a little blurred and is essential for a minor to develop with the greatest guarantees of well-being.

That is why this law must recover the prominence of that institution. I asked you in more depth if parents are going to be able to intervene in the educational contentsNo, the educational contents are already established where they correspond and in this law we want the family to have prominence and to protect to families that are in situations of greater need and vulnerability, such as single parents who are recognized for the first time.