Isabel Díaz Ayuso once again took advantage of the Constitution Day celebration to attack the government of Pedro Sánchez, which she accused of “exaggerating to the point of creating real scandals in everything related to the management of the Popular Party communities.” From there, he continued reading the text he had prepared about the text regarding the privatized hospital in Torrejon, which he attributed largely to “disagreements between managers.”
“Anyone who uses the health system in Madrid to do any kind of business and makes one life prevail over the other will have a strong and undiluted response,” said Ayuso, whose public health department franchisees, such as Quiron, have doubled their income.
“What I ask is, in honor of the truth, to publish everything that was said in a leaked conversation, in a battle between managers,” he said of audio recordings published by El Pais newspaper in which the CEO of Ribera Salud was heard defending patients’ refusal to earn more. Ayuso believes these words were taken out of context, but praised “the removal of this person.”
Ayuso defended his government’s administration in this regard, inaugurating “a new inspection that joins the 40th annual inspections carried out by Torrejon Hospital.” The president of Madrid said that this inspection “shows that this hospital receives an average of 8.6 out of 10 from its patients.” Ayuso added: “There are disagreements between managers, and the waiting data in this hospital is unbeatable. I encourage you to compare the waiting data in Torrejon Hospital with the data of other hospitals in other regions that have increased their staff, that have increased their activity, and that there have been no complaints so far.”
“You cannot even question the entire health system, no matter how much Pedro Sanchez directly promotes it, as he did this week,” accused the Madrid president, who denied the reuse of non-reusable materials by health workers, as specified in the hospital plan. At an Extremaduran campaign rally, Sánchez attacked the PP’s health model. “Deal with everyone’s health until four people win. Ask Ayuso’s friend,” he said.
“If they say that reused materials from other patients were used, it means that there was negligence on the part of nurses and health workers in the hospital, and I will not assume that,” Ayuso said. “So, what I ask from those who leaked this news, to the media that did this, that promoted this, I ask them to say what internal disputes there were or, for example, why they do not say anything about everything that has been investigated these days and what is emerging.” The work done by the hospital was flawless.
Ayuso ignored issues such as the decision by Torrejon hospital management to modify triage in the emergency room to classify serious patients as mild patients or internal alerts about selecting patients based on their “economic profitability.” The director of that center fired four managers who denounced the order to refuse patients to earn more.
In an informal conversation with reporters after these statements, Ayuso stressed that “there is no reason to review the agreements” because “there is no breach of contract.” He also noted that the Community of Madrid had launched an audit, which his party leader Alberto Nunez Viejo had demanded.