The Health Department will open a sanctioning file to the Hestia Palau socio-health center in Barcelona for two cases of deficiencies in the Atention to pacients and unjustified lack of information to their relatives, according to TV-3 and confirmed by the ACN agency. In addition to these two cases, there are six others under study. All of them have been reported to the prosecution.
One of the relatives has explained that his father was malnourished, with poor hygiene and dehydrated after passing through the Hestia Palau. Infected with the coronavirus, he later entered the Sant Pau Hospital, where he died.
Another testimony denounces incommunication and says that her mother was short of breath, but the center refused to admit her to the hospital and she died.
Disinfected by the UME
Salut opened eight records news when receiving complaints: two have already concluded with the opening of the sanctioning file and the other six are still under study.
A center spokesperson He has admitted, in statements to TV-3, that communication with family members has been his “most important mistake”, but he assures that it is not true that he lacked hygiene or attention.
The Hestia Palau was disinfected by the Military Union of Emergencies on April 15 after a group of 15 families denounce the bad state of the center before the Generalitat and the Barcelona City Council.
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