The advisor to the Presidency and spokesperson for the Madrid Government, Miguel Ángel García Martín, came out this Wednesday to defend that the regional Executive chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso did “everything in its power” during the pandemic to provide resources to the residences of greater.
García Martín's intervention occurs just one day after the judicial statement of the former general director of Socio-Health Coordination of the Community of Madrid, Carlos Mur, who, in the judicial statement to which the Ser channel has had access, admits to the judge that “the idea of medicalizing the residences failed because, among other things, the resources that existed were directed to other points.” “The channeling of resources to other devices that were being opened did not allow for the means to medicalize the residences as they should,” says the person who was director of socio-health coordination at that time and who, in the end, signed the so-called “protocols of shame.” "with the controversial orders issued by the Ministry of Health to prohibit the transfer to the hospital of the elderly who lived in a residence and who fell ill with covid during the first wave.
Mur, in fact, reiterated yesterday in the Investigative Court number 4 of Madrid that the action protocols existed during the first although, immediately afterwards, he pointed out that they were not mandatory.
When asked about the statement made by the former senior official of the Community of Madrid at a press conference, the Madrid Government spokesperson insisted that "no one can doubt that the Government provided all available means to the residences."
García Martín, as spokesperson for the current Ayuso Executive, added that “all residences were provided with resources and more than 11,000 transfers were made to the different health centers.”
"Although there are people who do it, in addition to the opposition, no one can doubt that the Government did everything in its power, with private and public hospitals, with the launch of the Zendal Hospital, hotels were sanitized and with all the protective material we brought,” he added.
In this sense, the spokesperson for the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso has highlighted that the Community of Madrid “went ahead” in taking action to combat the pandemic and has considered that “it was others who left their duties” while “this Government took the bull by the horns.”
In his judicial statement, however, Mur also explains that “only 23 elderly people from two residences in Villaviciosa de Odón and Collado Villalba were transferred to that Ifema hospital. All of them were discharged in just a few days. According to his testimony, no one else was admitted because they did not have the means to care for this type of patient.
