This Tuesday took place the long-awaited meeting between Emmanuel de Geuser, president of the Ribera Group, which manages the Torrejón de Ardoz hospital, and the Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fátima Matute, to analyze “the situation that has occurred in recent days”, the main result of which has been to discredit the information from EL PAÍS that revealed the scandal.
At the end of the meeting, the Community of Madrid issued a statement in which it declared that “the president of the Ribera Group categorically denies any type of instruction given by the company to professionals at the Torrejón public hospital.” De Geuser, for his part, denied that any instructions had been given to the professionals of this center and announced possible legal proceedings in response to the “very serious and false accusations” made against his group.
After the revelation of the scandal surrounding the directions given by the CEO of the Ribera group, Pablo Gallart, the Madrid department announced an urgent meeting with the head of the center. That same Wednesday, Santé had to postpone the appointment after Gallart decided to step down from hospital management. De Geuser was replaced for this meeting.
“During the meeting, which took place at the Ministry of Health, De Geuser told Matute that he regretted the leaks of the remarks made by the company’s CEO, Pablo Gallart, expressed in a private meeting last September and which were published in various media in a decontextualized environment,” indicates the note from the communications services of the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
To deny these accusations on the audios discovered by EL PAÍS, this newspaper published on Tuesday the full recording of the internal meeting in which on September 25, CEO Gallart asked around twenty managers to increase waiting lists and select profitable processes to increase EBITDA. However, according to the summary of the meeting prepared by the Community of Madrid, “De Geuser categorically denied any type of instruction given by the Ribera Group to the professionals of said center and who have been the subject of accusations in recent days.”
Still according to this note, the CEO of Vivalto Santé and boss of the Ribera Group “assured that no triage process has been modified, no medical equipment has been reused, nor the attendance criteria have been manipulated”. “The results of the internal audit carried out by Ribera confirm the good management of care at the hospital,” indicates the press release from the Community of Madrid.
“Thus, the president of the Group met this morning with the professionals of the hospital center, where he shared the first conclusions of this internal audit and where the workers firmly defended at all times the integrity and freedom in the exercise of their profession,” continues a press release which strives to reject any responsibility on the Torrejón de Ardoz hospital. “A rigorous action, subject to the highest standards of quality of care and the code of ethics which guides them, oriented solely towards the well-being of patients,” specifies the note.
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