The CEO of the Ribera Salud group, Pablo Gallart, stated that the audio recordings uncovered and published by this newspaper about the management of the Torrejon de Ardoz hospital in which it urged the rejection of patients or unprofitable practices correspond to “cut and edited” excerpts “out of context” and do not include the “full” or “real” content of the meeting.
“After listening to the entire audio, I was able to verify that the published audio had been edited and cropped, removing large parts of it, in order to attempt to distort the content of the messages that were presented at the business meeting between the company’s directors,” Gallart himself noted in a statement. He has therefore shared a new audio clip of 4 minutes and 20 seconds that, as he points out, corresponds to the full recording of the meeting in question and includes new excerpts “that will be supported by a documentary document” through which he will seek to certify “that all these expressions are part of the complete audio.”
He added: “Since I am not a judge, the competent court will reach its own conclusion.” Gallart explained that he can now “defend himself” against “false accusations” by having access to the full audio recording of one hour and 21 minutes thanks to one of the employees of the aforementioned hospital, who, as he stated, was “forced” to “record a business meeting.”
“We are ready to stay in the project, even if the profitability that we will have from now on in the future is zero. OK? Always, of course, we will have to have a much smaller waiting list than the general one. What we are talking about here is how we can make Torrejon survive,” Gallart is heard saying in this new audio recording that Europa Press has access to.
The CEO asked Rivera Salud to distance herself from the management of Hospital Torrejon de Ardoz after reports that she had given instructions to reject patients or eliminate unprofitable practices, and the company announced it would conduct an “in-depth” audit. In this sense, he was proud of the data of Torrejon Hospital, “one of the best centers in the public care network of the Community of Madrid,” and that the “continuous” audits of the center “have not discovered any irregularities.”
Gallart concludes by writing: “I do not intend to win any media battle, because it is not my job, and I know that it is not possible. Nor do I expect any media outlet, nor any politician who has publicly insulted me by making accusations based on malicious audio recordings, to ask for forgiveness. I do not need it (…). You all know very well the moral values by which I have always acted and my organization operates. I will never work for a company that does not have strict moral and ethical values.”