For once, the roles were reversed. Alberto Núñez Feijóo collaborated with Isabel Díaz Ayuso on a theme closely related to her. Essentially, it is the president of Madrid who deals with national issues and gets media attention, when he should be the leader of the People’s Party, and the person who had the most visibility at the time of the opposition to Pedro Sánchez. Last year, Genoa took the lead.
It’s time to criticize the CEO of Ribera Salud, who in an audio recording revealed by the newspaper EL PAÍS ordered the directors of the General Hospital of Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid) to raise waiting lists in order to perform fewer interventions and refuse unprofitable patients or operations to increase economic benefit. “I am happy that he was fired,” the PP leader said at an event in Don Benito (Badajoz). He added, “This type of demonstration and behavior contradicts the basic principles that must govern the health of our country.”
However, Ayuso, who was responsible for resolving this entire crisis, said nothing. Last July, he attended an observation session in the Madrid Assembly, but it was not his responsibility to address the opposition. Menudo is someone who talks about everything that happens in Spain, and in this case he did not speak publicly. “Today I had no actions to speak,” they justify those around them, although, more often than not, this does not represent any obstacle: the president steps aside to make statements to journalists. “I spoke to the spokesperson and the council provided the information and the steps that will be taken,” as well as another source close to the decision-making process at the Real Casa de Correos, in the seat of the Madrid government.
Clearly, the Ayuso administration has acted. The Board of Health urgently summoned the hospital management team and committed to taking “all measures and controls that can be compatible with it.” I also listen to the government of Pedro Sanchez. The Supreme Inspectorate of the Ministry of Health has examined itself and is seeking to find out whether the rights to protect public health have been violated after listening to the audio recordings revealed by this journal.
The Ayusu people claim that they did not come out to decide anything publicly and did not celebrate the event, nor did they have to take the floor. More than that, the attack was followed by: “Hubera devoted exceptional time to speaking with the group of doctors against the Minister, with Salazar, with the thieves of the Socialist Workers Party, with the accused and humiliated socialist women, with the socialists in prison…”
Surprisingly, however, it was Feijóo who spoke, as well as with so much force, on a topic that concerned Ayuso in such a clear way. The People’s Party leader has requested a “rigorous review of this hospital” which analyzes “the performance of surgery, tests, the waiting list and how this hospital is run”. In fact, Figo points out that the CEO may be held criminally liable for the facts disclosed. “If someone intends to save money on the basis of not caring for patients, on the ground there is an administrative responsibility, but we must see if there is another kind of responsibility and punish it.”
The revolution resulting from EL PAÍS exclusivity has been extraordinary. It generated so much indignation that he heard the following decision during a meeting with dozens of applications from the group and the hospital on September 25: “In Torrejón in the 22nd and 23rd years, we decided as an organization to make an effort to reduce the waiting list. “To reach an EBITDA (benefit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of four or five million,” says Gallart, who complains of “making iterations,” that is, adjustments.