The former Minister of Social Policies insists that people were excluded “based on their situation of dependency or disability”
MADRID, 23 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
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, he 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 Nor were “the residences medicalized.”
“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.
