Relatives of the deceased gathered this Friday in the City of Justice and registered the letter to ask that “José Luis Díaz Manzanera receive us.”
Daughters, granddaughters and relatives of the deceased at the Caser de Santo Ángel residence during the months of March and April 2020 gathered this Friday morning at the gates of the City of Justice of Murcia and registered a letter addressed to the superior prosecutor of the Region, José Luis Díaz Manzanera, to receive them and to obtain answers. The signatories assure that they presented a complaint against the residential itself and the Ministry of Health that was not supported by the General Prosecutor’s Office, for which they express their “deepest desolation and indignation at the flagrant injustice that materializes with the dismissal.”
In the letter they quantify that 106 elderly people from the nursing home were infected and 34 died during the first hour. “The families believe that if they had been transferred to a hospital on time, many of them could have been saved. For months now, we have been going out to the streets to beg and beg for the truth of what happened without obtaining answers from either the Justice or the regional Administration, “lament the plaintiffs, who continue to wait for the Murcia Prosecutor’s Office to explain why it does not act , opening an exhaustive investigation process on its own initiative.
They also wonder “why doesn’t the Prosecutor’s Office propose to carry out an investigation into what happened? The 34 avoidable deaths, which occurred in tremendous conditions in almost all cases, cannot be minimized by prosecutors and judges, as we believe has been happening for more than a year, “they state in the letter. They directly attack the “mismanagement of the management of said center and the application of protocols by the Ministry of Health, such as the one based on the ‘Deep Index’, which prevented the transfer of residents to unsaturated hospitals.” They consider that it involved “the clear omission of the duty of assistance, denial of assistance, reckless homicide and prevarication for giving those orders.”
They assure that they have had information that the Community did not spend the budget established on oxygen or pharmaceutical products in the residences, but that much less was spent. According to the complainants, those responsible for the Caser residence “neither proceeded to isolate the affected residents or adopt preventive measures, even taking the decision that the affected residents return to the common areas,” according to a complaint letter from the workers. from the nursing home.
“It should be noted that the very high number of infected residents in Caser can only be explained by the negligence and lack of control in the application of the existing protocols for residences in the month of March. Once the infections were massive, the workers of the Caser residential complex, during the critical period of March and April, provided incomplete, contradictory and false information about the health status of our parents, “they criticize.
Faced with these situations, the signatories regret that they have not received exhaustive information or medical reports that prove what happened: “Neither those that the health personnel should have done, nor those that the medical personnel sent by SMS should have done once the residence was intervened (…) We only have many lies, many evidences of the existing chaos and the testimonies of workers from the residence hall and doctors from 061, who came to certify deaths in those days, who say they were abandoned.
“We only have many lies, many evidences of the existing chaos and the testimonies of workers from the residence hall and doctors from 061, who came to certify deaths in those days, who say they were abandoned”, affirm the signatories. For all this, they have decided to appeal the dismissal order “because they consider that it violates our right to effective judicial protection, since it must coincide with the sufficiency of the judicial investigation.” They also request a meeting with the prosecutor and remain at his disposal “for any interview you want to have or for any explanation you want to give us.”
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