The leader of the People’s Party, Alberto Nunez Viejo, called this Thursday for a public “review” with “absolute rigor” on the operation of the public hospital in Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid), run by the private company Ribera Salud and whose CEO was dismissed after he asked in an internal meeting to turn away patients to make more money. “I am convinced that colleagues in the Community of Madrid are doing this with absolute rigor,” he concluded his statement about the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
“I am happy that he was sacked,” Figo said, referring to Ribera Salud CEO Pablo Gallart. The fact is that it was the same director who asked his own company to remove him from the management of the Torrejon Hospital.
When asked by journalists in Don Benito during an event for the Extremaduran elections on December 21, Figo asserted that the orders issued by Gallart to his subordinates to dismiss patients and thus increase the economic benefits of Ribera Salud “contrary to the fundamental principles that should govern public health care.”
But, in addition, Vigo called for that hospital to be “reviewed with absolute precision” to measure its “surgical performance”, “outpatient consultation performance”, “testing performance”, “central services performance”, as well as its “waiting list”.
Feijóo requested “a rigorous analysis of how the disease was managed in the last months and years that this director was in charge” of Torrejon Hospital. The People’s Party leader was president of Insalud from 1996 to 2000. Before that, he was head of Galician health.
The leader of the People’s Party considered that the position of the CEO of Ribera Salud “is not compatible with the hospital management.” He predicted that “if someone tries to save money by not taking care of patients, there will be not only administrative liability, but another kind,” so he should be “reported and punished.”
Feijóo settled on the following: “I am convinced that the colleagues of the Community of Madrid are doing this with absolute rigor.”