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San Miguel: after the evacuation of a nursing home due to a coronavirus case, 16 of the residents died

2020-07-30T02:28:15.098Z


The relatives and the owners of the place denounce that the operation was "violent, sloppy and without respecting the sanitary measures." The municipality's response.


Javier Firpo

07/29/2020 - 22:18

  • Clarín.com
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A case of coronavirus in a nursing home in San Miguel ended with a controversial evacuation and the subsequent death of 16 of the internees . What happened? A nurse who worked there celebrated her birthday as a family, where she had been infected with Covid-19 , and would have brought the virus to the home of older adults.

The Bello Horizonte home had 40 residents.  Today 18 are staying there and four are about to return. The remaining two for now would not return. 

Relatives of the deceased and survivors filed a criminal complaint at UFI No. 4 in San Martín against various members (the undersecretary of health, doctors, traffic agents) of the Municipality of San Miguel, who are responsible for " an operation violent for the residents of the home, sloppy and without respecting sanitary measures , "says Verónica Nogueira, owner of Bello Horizonte.

Of the 16 deceased, 6 are confirmed as victims of the coronavirus as reported by the Integrated Health Information System. And the other ten? "The remaining dead only God knows. Health negligence, I imagine, but I am not a judge of anyone, I only take care of taking care of grandparents. Only they did not leave me," remarks Nogueira.

After the evacuation of the Bello Horizonte nursing home due to a coronavirus case, 16 of the residents died.

The complaint, filed on Monday, July 27, requires an investigation into "the possible commission of the crimes of aggravated cover-up, abuse of authority, violation of the duties of a public official and abandonment of persons, " it says in the first of its fifty pages. .

Among the main accused are the Secretary of Health of the Municipality of San Miguel, Diego Lambert; the veterinarian Alejandro Ameal: Matías Traynor, coordinator of Traffic Inspectors of the Municipality of San Miguel; Mariano Calvente, director of Urban Control of said municipality; Facundo Caiña, administrative director of the isolation center of Colegio Máximo and Dr. Viviana Bertollini, medical director of the Máximo Isolation center, among others.

"I barely knew that there was a possible case of coronavirus. I did what I had to do, which was to call the municipality, but I never imagined that they would act the way they did , with insensitivity and intolerable ways. First, they did not let me guide to those responsible for the operation, since I could provide the medical records of each patient and their medications. They practically took my nursing home  and solved it in their own way, without knowing who was who ", describes Dolida Nogueira.

The evacuation was carried out in the first days of July, in three stages, and the residents were transferred to hospitals or isolation centers without having done the corresponding swabs. " They took them with their clothes on, in their nightgowns, at most a bag with the cold it was already, and disabled people moved them without their wheelchairs and left them lying in beds during the period of isolation. You know the shock that this means mistreatment of our old men ! They ripped them from their place of belongings, from their things and deposited them as if they were merchandise ", unloads Nogueira.

María Victoria Kohnke (42) confirms what Nogueira said and describes the situation of her grandmother, Ana María Vilas, 93, who had been living in Bello Horizonte for three years.

" She was barbaric until the day before they took her away , which was July 1 or 2, I'm still not sure, because we were practically a day without knowing where she was, No one knew how to tell me anything. Later I found out that She was at Colegio Máximo, where she spent ten days isolated, unable to see or speak to anyone ... and they even left her food at the door knowing that many times she couldn't get to it. "

Kohnke cannot believe the way his grandmother was treated. "She was always, despite her age, an autonomous, independent woman, she went up and down the stairs several times a day because in the nursing home she had her private room on the first floor. My mom visited her every day and brought her food They returned it to me made a piltrafa, almost that it did not speak, without being able to walk, all urinated and with a nauseating smell , since it was ten days without bathing and not even the bloomers should have changed ", he denounces.

Kohnke says that during the isolation period of Vilas, his grandmother was in contact with the doctor Olivia Recondo, who works at Colegio Máximo, which became a health center. " They never gave me or any of the internees an official and formal medical report, everything was just like that, apricot ... 'Easy, your grandmother is great, don't worry' . And her condition was deplorable, they never gave her your medication. "

In tune with Kohnke is Eleonora Grossi, doctor and daughter of Amalia Bettoni (83), who had been in Bello Horizonte for three years and died on July 15 at the San Miguel Arcángel Hospital. "My mom was fine, lucid, but could not walk. She was infected with covid, but I do not know conclusively what she died. What I do know is that she was the victim of the neglect and disorganization of the municipality , since she and the others grandparents were transferred by traffic officers, who had no idea what or how to do it, since they had no training or medical knowledge. "

Grossi also experienced moments of anguish and uncertainty because for several hours he was unaware of the whereabouts of his mother. "They isolated all the nursing staff from the nursing home and put new, inexperienced people who had to care for 40 elderly people without having the slightest idea of ​​their medical records or names . I asked for my mom's name and not They knew who she was talking about. They asked me to send them a photo to identify her. Shameful . "

"My mother was transferred to an isolation center and then to the hospital without clothes, without diapers, when she needs seven a day, with her skin destroyed by bedsores, without her wheelchair, without her medication ... They left her thrown like a bag of potatoes in a bed without rails. Total madness, unprecedented inhumane treatment, as a member of the medical staff I do not understand why, what they wanted to do, without a contingency plan. I hope someone will put a stop to this lack of control where people look like numbers. "

What happened to the other ten older adults who did not die from Covid? "Isolate them, not feed them properly, take them out of their homes on the coldest days of the year, not sanitize them, don't you think they are inhumane conditions that acted as fundamental triggers for the psychological and physiological process of their pathologies? That the prosecutor and God answer me. "

From the Municipality of San Miguel, in response to Clarín's query , they responded that "the Municipality carries out daily controls at all nursing homes. In more than one case, we found very complicated situations, which required the corresponding Covid-19 protocols to be activated, with transfers made by SAME to establishments or hospitals specially designed for coronavirus care in the district. "

"In relation to the complaint," the complaint continues, "we are not aware of it, but we are calm with our actions, beyond the fact that we are deeply hurt and regret every death in San Miguel. As is known, the group of older adults , especially if they are over 80 or 90 years old, as in this case, they are the most affected in this pandemic and unfortunately it is often difficult to prevent them and their families from suffering, beyond the fact that we do everything possible to avoid it. "

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Source: clarin

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