US EditionEmployees of Torrejón Hospital Were Ordered to Reuse Single-Use Sanitary Material
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One of the instructions to increase benefits in this public private management center was to sterilize catheters, up to a maximum of ten times, even though they can only be reconditioned by specialized companies.An internal document warned that the management of Torrejón Hospital chose patients for “economic return” The plan to increase benefits of the private health giant Ribera Salud, who manages the public private management hospital in Torre…
One of the instructions given by the managers of Torrejón de Ardoz Hospital to employees to increase benefits was to reuse single-use medical devices. Employees who were fired denounced these practices in the internal channel, according to El País. Among them, they included, for example, sterilizing single-use catheters and reusing them up to 10 times.
One of the instructions to increase profits in Torrejón Hospital, a private-run public, was the reuse of single-use medical devices. This was denounced in the internal ethical channel by the directors who were dismissed and this is reflected in documentation to which EL PAÍS has had access, although a spokesman for the Ribera Salud Group, a company that manages the hospital, denies that this practice is carried out.
Minister Mónica García sends a letter to the Health Department. More information: Ribera announces an audit at the Hospital de Torrejón and Gallart, its CEO, asks to be removed from her management.
The Department of Health of the Community of Madrid has reported that the Directorate General of Inspection is in the Torrejón de Ardoz Hospital this Friday to gather "information with professionals on the use of surgical material." This has responded through a community to a publication of the newspaper El País about complaints by orders to reuse medical devices of one use, which adds to Pablo Gallart's request to be disassociated from his work…
The PSOE has moved to Brussels the crisis unleashed around Torrejón de Ardoz University Hospital, a public private management centre in the Community of Madrid, after it was known that the CEO of Ribera Salud, the licensed health group, urged at a meeting last September to prioritize cost-effective procedures. José Cepeda training MEP has sent a question to the European Commission about the risks to patients’ rights and the protection of whistle…
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