The grandfather of the Malagaña Amelia Prieto entered a residence of private seniors in July 2022. He did it under the recommendation of the Costa del Sol Hospital, in Marbella. They did not let him see him up to two days later and, when he did, he liked “very little” because there was a lot of dirt and they didn’t let him see all the facilities. On the second visit he saw his relative relative and in the third he asked him to get him out of there. “He told me they were hitting him,” says Prieto, who days later achieved his goal. Then he took the man to the hospital for a check -up and was diagnosed with scabies. “He took her there because everything was very dirty, disgusting,” recalls the woman, who does not understand the abandonment of the center’s users and, much less, that he has been open for a decade until the Junta de Andalucía closed it less than a month ago for lacking a license and for breaking the architectural regulations. “Nobody passed by to see how the elders were in all that time?” He asks. The Andalusian administration has not explained why it took so long to close a place that lacked permission. Nor the City of Malaga.
one of the most exclusive areas of the Andalusian city. Its facilities were those of a huge house with a dozen rooms owned by María Salud Sotorrío and her husband. They managed a nursery until they changed their jobs and about ten years ago they rent the property to two sisters, who launched the center of elders. Almost three years ago, Prieto took his grandfather from there for bad conditions, but he is not the only one. Victoria said that his father spent a year and a half after the recommendation of the Regional Hospital of Malaga. When I was going to visit him “I was always with Pipí” and there was dirt everywhere. They paid 1,500 euros per month.
His are not the only complaints. The reviews on Google go along the same path. “I advise all the relatives that you have your father or mother there to take him out as soon as possible,” said Montse García in 2023. “A thousand irregularities that my father and the other residents have passed,” added Aurora Cestino. “Total neglect,” said Susana Montero a month ago, just when it was announced that the center closed. “Neither have abused grandparents or have not eaten. None of that,” the residence director, Mercedes Vera, defended in the program Let’s see, From Telecinco, this Friday.
Humidities on the walls
During the morning the house has worked as a television set. The cameras and micros rested between bleach bottles, destroyed appliances or an old parchies. Numerous chains have made their directs there to tell the situation in which the property María Salud Sotorrío found a month ago, when his tenants left. “They say that I have done the damage, but this has much longer. It is impossible for us to have left this in 15 days,” said the woman.
It showed the humidity in one of the rooms, the oxidized shelves of the bathrooms, the floor raised from the bathrooms, the dirt accumulated in the shared areas, the dirty pool, the mattresses with urine, the damages in the furniture. She, next to her husband, have cleaned part of the house and accumulated many belongings to throw them or donate them. There are a fortnight of canes, a couple of wheelchairs, dozens of diaper packages. The garden grass is already raising a meter from the ground. , the woman pointed out.
Andrés Pérez, a family lawyer, together with an antiokupas company and a private detective, entered the house on March 30 with a mobile ahead to show the damage. Then they have filed a complaint, in which they underline that the tenants owe almost 85,000 euros and that in the situation in which the farm and the behaviors of the two people denounced “have left” all the elements of the crime of damage concur, “according to the complaint, to which the country has had access. “We have suffered many damages, but those who have really had a bad time are the elders and their families. I do not understand that this situation has been allowed,” added the owner.
“We have closed the La Coracha residence for not complying with the regulations at the request of the Social Services Inspection of the Territorial Delegation,” said sources from the Junta de Andalucía, where they clarified that it was a private center without concerted places. On Thursday, Patricia Navarro, delegate of the Andalusian Government in Malaga, said that it had closed after “several reports and several inspections” and that the requirements “in terms of architectural regulations” were not met, which “could put at risk the security and even the lives of users.” Given the questions of this newspaper, the Board has not given more explanations of why the residence had not been inspected – which was announced on the Internet and, in addition, was recommended from public hospitals – or how it has worked without a license. Nor has the City of Malaga responded.
