A total of 40 elderly have died within the residences in the A Coruña area, according to the latest data provided by the Xunta. The one of O Portazgo accumulates 11 deceased. The other people have died in Concepción Arenal (3), Santa Teresa Jornet (7), Domus Vi de Matogrande (8), Caser de A Zapateira (1) Fogar Bellolar (2) and Remanso (8). These cases must be added to those who died in hospitals in the health area of A Coruña.
The nursing homes in the A Coruña area register a total of 109 people infected by coronavirus, according to the figures of the Xunta. They are 60 users and 31 workers.
The El Portazgo residence accumulates 12 infected between older and 1 worker.
Also, the residence DomusVi from Matogrande It has 7 users affected by Covid-19 and 3 workers.
The residence Concepción Arenal de A Coruña registers 5 cases of major infections and 1 worker, while Fogar Bellolar adds a positive between users and two workers.
The residence Claudina-Somoza backwater registered 1 case of users affected by coronavirus and 1 among workers.
The residence Santa Teresa Jornet registers 23 affected users and 6 workers.
Domus Vi of Oleiros has 1 infected among workers, Orpea Coruña 3 users and 2 workers, Sanitas 1 worker, and Caser de A Zapateira, 8 users and two infected workers. The Torrente Ballester A Coruña has 1 affected worker.
The DomusVi group, owner of the Matogrande residence and manager of the Concepción Arenal public residence, has decided to group all those affected by coronaviruses in their A Coruña residences into the second.
Furthermore, in the Attention Center for People with Disabilities in A Coruña It currently has 9 affected users and 4 workers. In the homes of Aspronaga two users are affected.
The families
The families demand an immediate intervention from the Xunta in those residences where they test positive and regret the lack of transparency both from the administration and from the residences’ own directorates.
Since Net, a federation that groups users and families, explain that the residences have not escaped the cuts. Your spokesperson, Paulino Campos, accuses the companies that manage the residences of “skimping on protective equipment” and of having become “usury merchants” who have understood the residences as a “business” without attending to their social connotations. “The human rights of individuals and the labor rights of workers have been violated,” he concludes.
All the opposition groups have demanded the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to appear in the Galician Parliament to explain what the Galician government has been doing in public and private residences during this crisis.
The Xunta
The General Director of Seniors and Dependents, Ildefonso de la Campa, admits that the templates fell short due to the casualties caused by the coronavirus in order to cover the needs of nursing homes. He points out that he is already reinforcing them. Appeals to young people studying medicine and pharmacy and cleaning staff to sign up. “Students, assistants, caregivers, cleaning staff … All the staff that is made available because it will be necessary to replace those staff who are being left behind,” said de la Campa.
The employer
The president of the Galician Association of Senior Citizen Residences, which groups the majority of private residences, admits the lack of personnel to deal with the situation, as workers and unions have denounced, but points to the Xunta, which is the one who sets the criteria on the templates.
“Yes, we are having a lack of personnel, due to work losses, isolation, people who had a temporary contract that they have not wanted to renew … But the centers themselves have the personnel that set the law, not that the employer decides,” he points out. the president of the Agarte association, Jesús Pazos.
The Xunta protects all residences, public and private, but ensures that it will not interfere with the management of private ones.
UGT calls for more protection measures
The UGT union reiterates that there is an absence of protection measures in nursing homes. They point out that in the center of O Portazgo they themselves commented that they were without means of protection, not even with masks. María José Calvo, from the UGT Health Federation, points out that the health authority must ensure that all protocols are followed in both public and private residences.
In this sense, he points out that there is a “general absence of protection measures” in this type of facilities, despite the fact that they cater to “higher risk groups”. He adds that “in this center they were without protective measures, especially masks.
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