The Madrid Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against several community hospitals to clarify the criteria when selecting which patients were or were not admitted in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and which had access to a respirator.
Legal sources have informed Efe that the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office has already sent a letter to each of the hospital centers to clarify what those medical criteria are. access to respirators and to the ICU.
The opening of these investigative measures occurs after a complaint from the Patient Advocate It includes several regional hospitals presented to the State Attorney General, which in turn has referred them to the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office.
From the Patient Advocate they explain to Efe that they want “responsibilities to be clarified” before “the number of deceased who could not enter the hospital nor were they subjected to any treatment“, especially those in nursing homes.
“What we intend is to find out why many patients were not admitted to the ICU, what reasons it was due to, there was an order or a mandate,” said the Ombudsman, who represents several relatives of victims of COVID-19.
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