The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, stated this Thursday at parliamentary headquarters that she hopes that the one who was her advisor for Social Policies during the pandemic, Alberto Reyero, “will be charged today” after declaring before the judge for the protocols in residences in which “people were excluded based on their situation of dependency or disability”.
Ayuso has spoken like this after listening to the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Mónica García, how she demanded that she ask for “pardon” because “7,291 older people died in an unworthy way” due to the “protocols of shame”.
The former Minister of Citizens Alberto Reyero has declared today as a witness in the Investigating Court number 9 of Madrid on these protocols, which prevented the transfer of the elderly from residences to hospitals in the months of the health crisis. “Those protocols left thousands of elderly people who died unworthily at the feet of the horses,” lamented García, after blaming Ayuso for the “institutionalization of daily abuse” and the “dehumanization” of politics.
The former Minister of Social Policies Alberto Reyero has stressed that the people who occupied the residences “were left to their fate” during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic due to the referral protocols implemented by the regional administration.
This is how the ex-counselor himself has defended it before the media moments before declaring this Thursday as a witness in the Investigating Court number 9 of Madrid for the case of the protocols.
Reyero has stressed that the referral protocols were “exclusionary” and by virtue of them “people were excluded based on their situation of dependency or disability.” “This prevented them from being treated in hospitals and caused the people who stayed in the residences to die in conditions that I consider unworthy,” the former counselor stressed.
In this sense, it has stressed that, in addition, “there were no alternatives” to these hospital admissions, since in the hospital set up in Ifema Madrid to deal with the health crisis caused by the coronavirus “no people from residences were treated” and “the residences were not medicalized” either.
“People were really abandoned to their fate,” insisted Alberto Reyero, who has supported this statement in a report by Amnesty International.
Asked about the responsibility for what happened, the former counselor has specified that this does not correspond to him but to the judge, although he has acknowledged that “conclusions can be drawn” from everything he has been saying both in public pronouncements and in his book. They died in an undignified way.’ “I think I have already said enough”, he has sentenced himself.
