The former director of the Fiella de Tremp residence, today charged with reckless homicide and a crime against workers for an uncontrolled outbreak of covid in December 2020, testified today in court. According to the attorney for the affected families, she has denied any responsibility for the outbreak that killed 64 elderly people, more than half of the residents. “He said that everything was in order, that the protocols were followed, that the Mossos lied in their investigation and that if there is anyone guilty it is the nuns of the institution, who were responsible for health matters at the center,” explained the lawyer. Xavier Prats. This Monday the nun Maria Rosa Nabaroa and former hygienic-sanitary person also attended the courts, who has taken advantage of her right not to testify.
Force to reuse a surgical mask for two weeks already go to work with fever, skipping all protocols and health measures. Taking more than three days to isolate infected patients, and a phantom hygienic-sanitary manager who never served as such. Lying to Salut and ensuring that they had substitute personnel to cover casualties. Are These are some of the dozen serious negligences that, according to the Mossos investigation to which EL PERIÓDICO had access, they created a macro-infection of coronavirus in the Tremp residence, managed by the Fiella ecclesial foundation.
64 deceased
64 elderly people died in this center, almost half of those who lived there, and a third of the staff were infected during the second wave of the pandemic (November and December 2020). The case came to court in two ways: on the one hand, a judge investigated them for reckless homicide and degrading treatment of patients at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. But there is another investigation underway for a crime against workers. As employees have stated, caregivers were not sufficiently protected to avoid contagion.
It is this second investigation that summoned them this Monday to testify before the investigating judge. Navarroa is the only one of the two defendants who has responded to the questions of the judge and her lawyer. “She said that everything was perfect, that all the protocols were complied with… that everything was done well,” Prats explained at the release of the statement. The families’ lawyer, who has not been able to ask questions to the former director of the center because she has refused to answer him, has explained that he has gone so far as to affirm that the Mossos report lies. “He has said that it is untrue that the center’s workers were not sufficiently protected and that the Mossos report in which it is stated that the anticovid protocols were not complied with nor were the patient records recorded are false,” Prats continued. .
Open war with the Church
In fact, the former director, who has a degree in Social Work, has stated that if something did not work correctly, it was the fault of the nuns and religious women who worked at the center. “It is the strategy that the defenses carry out, the religious and civil part blame each other, they blame each other,” says Prats. And the Tremp nursing home belonged to the Fiella ecclesial foundation, made up of the bishopric of Urgell. “The former director has said that the nurses and those in charge of health matters were the nuns,” says the families’ lawyer.
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In fact, the other defendant in this case, the nun Maria Rosa Nabaroa, has taken advantage of her right not to testify. She has not even responded to the judge’s questions. This nun is an 85-year-old woman, who three years ago was responsible for the health and hygiene of the residence, and now her lawyers are trying to invalidate her testimony from the forensic doctors, given her advanced age. her. “They are using the deadlines to her advantage,” considers Prats, who remembers that these cases began two years ago.
Tomorrow three members of the Fiella Foundation board, which managed the nursing home, are scheduled to testify in court. Among them is Joan Ubach, former convergent mayor of Tremp. While the uncontrolled Covid outbreak was active, the president of the board of the Fiella foundation was the parish priest of Tremp, who died months later.