- The scandal has erupted in the Spanish State after the army found several abandoned dead bodies in the nursing homes of the Spanish State. The Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against the Spanish multinational DomusVi, which manages part of the contracts of the Islamic State. This company manages its centres in different countries. 198 in the Spanish state; 12 in the Basque country.
"[Spain] The Spanish Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, stated on Monday on several visits to completely abandoned, sometimes dead, elderly people in their beds. The State Attorney General has announced that he will open an investigation to gather information, clarify what has happened and determine whether "the gravity of the facts has a possible criminal prevalence".
The Ministry of Defence subsequently reported that there were several residences in which the bodies were located, without specifying the number or exact location. According to this article from El País, in these residences a virus was detected that caused the loss of many of its workers.
According to health sources, the bodies of people who die in nursing homes are moved to a cold room, where they remain while funeral services collect them. However, when the death is suspected to have been the result of COVID-19, the protocol states that it will not be touched until the funeral doctors and staff arrive, equipped with special bags and equipment, and meanwhile the corpse will remain in bed. According to El País, funeral services in Madrid are collapsed and take 24 hours to arrive in search of the corpses.
DomusVi company dossier
In February they opened a dossier to the multinational DomusVi, which managed the residence of the elderly in Usera, in Madrid. "Dirt, bad rooms, broken steels, cockroaches and health care were useless some of the things suffered by family members and workers," according to this news from Telemadrid.
Two workers from the nursing home in the Usera neighborhood in El País reported that at least one military body had been found on site. -He was there from the first hour of the afternoon. I arrived at night and at eight o'clock the next day I was still there.
DomusVi multinationals in the Basque Country
This company manages ten offices in the South and two in the North.
In Bilbao they have three: In Ribera Street with Plaza DomusVi Ribera 191; in Txurdinaga DomusVi Arbide with 50 places; in Santutxu Miraflores with 139 places.
One in Galdakao, DomusVi Aperribai, with 48 seats.
Arrigorriaga, with 132 seats.
In Vitoria-Gasteiz, the DomusVi Ariznabarra with 140 seats. There are at least two positive cases in this center.
Getarin de Lapurdi, Corpus Christi.
One angle, Arpège.
One in the Donostiarra neighborhood of Gros, Villa Sacramento, with 122 places.
Residence Atsobakar in Lasarte-Oria with 57 places.
Pasai-Antxon DomusVi Berra (the web does not work), on the Camino de Berratxo.
One in San Adrián, San Adrián, Navarra, with 138 seats.