The CEO of the Ribera Salud group, Pablo Gallart, said that the audios discovered about the management of the Torrejón de Ardoz hospital and in which he incited the rejection of patients or unprofitable practices correspond to “cut and edited” extracts found “ … out of context” and which do not include the “complete” or “actual content” of the meeting.
“After listening to the entire audio, I was able to verify that the published audio had been edited and cut, eliminating substantial portions, in an attempt to distort the substance of the messages that were transmitted during this working meeting between company leaders,” Gallart himself indicated in a statement.
So he shared a new audio of 4 minutes and 20 seconds which corresponds, as he emphasizes, to the complete recording of said meeting and includes new extracts which “will be supported by a notarial deed” with which he will seek to certify “that all these sentences are part of the complete audio”. “I don’t know who the author of the said malicious edition is, neither the journalist nor his source. Since I am not a judge, it is the corresponding court that will draw its own conclusion,” he said.
Gallart explained that he can now “defend himself” against the “false accusations” by having access to the entire audio of one hour and 21 minutes thanks to an employee of the said hospital center who, as he declared, was “forced” to “make a recording of a work meeting”. Yesterday, according to the executive, she “filed a police complaint” in which she explained the situation.
“We are ready to stay in the project, even if the profitability that we will have in the future is zero. All right? Of course, we will always need to have a much smaller waiting list than the public waiting list. What we are talking about here is how we can make Torrejón survive,” Gallart is heard saying in this new audio to which Europa Press had access.
The CEO asked Rivera Salud to dissociate itself from the management of the Torrejón de Ardoz Hospital following reports that it had given instructions to reject patients or abandon unprofitable practices and the company announced it would conduct a “thorough” audit.
In this sense, he welcomed the data from the Torrejón Hospital, “one of the best centers in the public healthcare network of the Community of Madrid”, and the fact that the “continuous” audits of the center “have not detected any irregularities”: “Their data on waiting lists is indisputable. During the last quarter alone, the average delay in outpatient consultations increased from 51 days in September to 41 days in December. 50 days in December.
The executive emphasizes that with this message, he does not intend to “win any media battle”: “I also do not expect any media, nor any politician who openly insulted me by making accusations based on malicious audio, to ask for forgiveness. I don’t need it (…). You all know perfectly well the ethical values with which I have always acted and my organization operates.