Alfonso Serrano, general secretary of the PP of Madrid, defended this Thursday the management of Isabel Díaz Ayuso during the pandemic and criticized that Spanish Television broadcast the documentary in which the order not to transfer hospitals to the elderly with some kind of ailment that were in residences and that caused the community to become the European region “is criticized,” many issues can be reviewed, but I and the Madrid are proud of what is proud of what was done by Ayuso, “he said, during an interview prior to the issuance of the documentary.
Serrano, however, dedicated more time to criticize that TVE issues a documentary about Madrid residences, in which he described a government president, Pedro Sánchez, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “I regret that everyone’s television gets and the government to attack a community. They have put a documentary that does not interest anyone, ”he protested. “Five years later you have to make balances, but the strange thing is to focus on the residences of Madrid when elders died in residences from all over Spain.”
On the reason to contribute a new figure on the dead in residences, Serrano charged against former social policy councilor of the Community of Madrid Alberto Reyero, who is attributed to the data of 7.291, “but there came a time that we said so far” and denounced “the political and torticulture use” of the left with the figures.
Serrano confirmed that Madrid was the most affected region, “that is true” due to population density, the airport or the subway, but quoted Catalonia, Aragon or Extremadura to say that the mortality of over 65 years was greater in those places. “Mortality in Spain for over 65 was 47% and in Madrid 40%. In Aragon, of every 100 older, 90 died, ”he said.
One of the data that met during the Investigation Commission that was interrupted by the elections was that in Madrid 20% of the people who lived in residences died. However, according to Serrano, “we have more than 60 judicial sentences that give us the reason.” “If we talk about truth, justice or reparation, who gives Ao Reason is the courts of justice.” His main anger, however, again and again, went against TVE for the issuance of the documentary he described as interested as part of the “permanent attack” to the Ayuso government, said Serrano who chose to place himself in front of the Zendal hospital under the rain to make the connection with TVE.
The program led by Xabier Fortes issued Thursday night in the 2 TVE that preceded the issuance of the documentary, was focused on what happened on the residences of the Community of Madrid and it offered the three existing figures over deceased during the first wave of the pandemic (from March to July 2020), a period that includes the validity of autonomic protocols that severely restricted the hospitalization of hospitalization of the elders who lived in the 475 residences of the region. The first is 7,291 deaths between March and April 2020, an official fact of the community obtained by the Digital Infolibre Thanks to an application based on the Transparency Law and that includes those killed in Madrid residences in March and April for any reason. The second, of 7,269, is offered by the National Statistics Institute and the third is 6,937, whose source is the Imserso (the Institute of Seniors and Social Services).
According to these figures, Madrid was the European region with greater excess mortality, according to the European Regions Committee. For its Pate, the Community of Madrid figure in 4.133 the number of deaths. This data only includes those who died with a confirmed covid, although in that period there was a shortage of tests.
During the program, Reyero’s opinion was also included, in the spotlight of the Ayuso Cabinet since he resigned for disagreeing with the management of the Community of Madrid and the subsequent publication of a book on these facts. “I meet a protocol that says that people with deterioration or mobility problems are excluded from derivation. These people died unworthy, ”he said.
Reyero, who resigned six months later, was the director responsible for the supervision of the residences of the Community of Madrid and explained in the interview that he warned that the regional government could incur a crime when he saw that these protocols: “They were discriminatory due to living in a residence, having mobility problems or having some age,” he said. In that sense, he brought the opposite to the Ministry of Health that said that 232 residences were medicated. “Medicalized is a very vaporous concept,” said who was in charge of Madrid’s residences. Although Reyero cited the airport as one of the reasons for high mortality, he focused on the political decisions adopted. “Attention was not put on the elderly and is one of the reasons of such mortality.”
Another testimonies included in the TVE program was that of María Paz Villanueva, whose parents died in a residence and recalled the call in which they denied the transfer “not even to the new hospital.” Or the Amparo Arreba, also daughter of deceased, who denounced the institutional violence exercised from the community and the president Ayuso, with whom she ruled out gathering “because she has dehumanized the deceased, and now dehumanizes their families.”
According to the Minister of Health, Mónica García, during the Pandemia, Ayuso “prioritized propaganda against the attempt to save lives” and in that process of dehumanization of the deceased recalled that in “some cases even came an invoice of the residence in which they had died.” On the fact that the almost 300 complaints filed have been filed, the minister insisted that one issue does not annul the other. “Political responsibilities go for another lane.”
On the reasons for focusing in Madrid, many of the participants, both in the documentary and in the previous debate, insisted that the famous protocols discriminated against the sick for reasons of physical dependence or for having some cognitive impairment.
Rarely a TVE 2 program had raised so much expectation. The average audience, which does not usually exceed 4% on Thursday at that time of the night, focused much of the political debate of the day in the Madrid Assembly.
