He asks the judge to hospitalize his sick grandmother after denying him a doctor - La Provincia

A man has asked the Justice to transfer and take care of a grandmother, a sick elderly woman, in a hospital coronavirus, an intern in the Monte Hermoso nursing home in Madrid, after being denied this request by a doctor from the Clinical Hospital despite the request from the geriatric doctor.

Monte Hermoso It is the residence with the most lethality due to coronavirus in the Community of Madrid. According to official figures, to which Europa Press has had access, until Wednesday included, a total of 46 people have died in this nursing home in this month of March, the majority with symptoms of Covid-19. In fact, more than a third of its residents have died in just 25 days, since it has 130 places.

According to the document filed yesterday Friday in the Guard Court for Francisco T.G., to which Europa Press has had access, her grandmother was transferred from the residence to the Clinical Hospital on the 17th due to respiratory failure and lack of blood oxygenation. There he was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism and tested positive for coronavirus.

The next day they transferred him to the plant with medication. On the 26th they informed them of the recovery of the old woman and of her transfer to the residence to continue there with the medication for the embolism (heparin) to undo the thrombus.

But yesterday at 12 o'clock the doctor from Monte Hermoso communicated to the relatives that Juana was ill, with a cough, noise in the bronchial tubes and an inflamed lung, "and in view of this situation the residence hall does not have sufficient means to care for it, so request an ambulance to transport her to Clinical" again.

"After 30 minutes, the residence doctor calls us again, informing us of the coordinator of the Clinical Hospital for the residence. They have denied the transfer of the hospital to my grandmother and, therefore, they deny her the sanity to which the article of the Constitution, despite the fact that a doctor requests the transfer to the hospital due to having sufficient resources for assistance, "says Francisco before the judge.

For all these reasons, it requests that, urgently and immediately, the transfer and medical assistance be imposed on the competent authority in this area. hospital with the necessary resources for the ailment that this person suffers "and thus avoid their possible death due to lack of healthcare and breach of the right to health protection."