The union Mats asks the Attorney General to investigate the downgrade of priority for 57 patients at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital. It also reports to the Ombudsman the confidentiality clauses that healthcare workers are required to sign.
The Assembly Movement of Healthcare Workers (Mats) has submitted a document to the Attorney General requesting an investigation into the alleged irregularities in the surgical waiting list of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. The union is asking for proceedings to be initiated for an alleged crime of administrative malfeasance, as reported by Europa Press.
The document focuses on the modification of the priority of 57 patients on the surgical waiting list at this facility. Specifically, their priority was downgraded from preferred, with a maximum waiting time of 90 days, to normal, which has a period of 180 days, which the union claims causes a detriment to patient care.
Mats points to the hospital's managing director, Carlos Mingo; the medical director, Rafael Martínez; and the head of the Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology department, Basilio de la Torre, as responsible. The union argues that the response from the Health Department has been to “discredit” the whistleblower of the irregularities, Dr. Luis Alberto Martos.
It is about dissuading and limiting fundamental rights of the working person
In parallel, Mats has filed a complaint with the Ombudsman regarding the Confidentiality Commitments and Duty of Secrecy that, it emphasizes, “are required to be signed” by professionals in several public hospitals in the Community of Madrid. The union believes that this measure has “a marked coercive character.”
The complaint specifically mentions the Dr. Rodríguez Lafora University Hospital, the Getafe University Hospital, and the Infanta Leonor in Vallecas. According to Mats, this signature aims to dissuade and limit fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and the right to protest, which can be exercised by informing the competent authorities about irregularities committed within the hospital itself.
The union describes the measure as “a strategy to conceal possible irregularities and intimidate professionals,” especially those who are starting work or have temporary contracts.
The two actions are now following different paths: the Attorney General will decide whether to open an investigation into the waiting list at Ramón y Cajal, while the Ombudsman will review the complaint regarding the confidentiality clauses in the three hospitals mentioned.
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