A woman dies on the fronton enabled by the City of Vitoria-Gasteiz for homeless people, her colleagues report inadequate treatment
- ARGIA, Y. 5. Gasteiztarra A. died on Wednesday morning when he was in bed in the center that the City Hall has enabled for evicted people. The City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Red Cross that manages the center have told ARGIA that they did not want to report that this is a "natural death". This media has contacted members of the deceased women's center and have denounced that they have been told not to say "half-word" about death. They also reported that he was very ill and that he had not received the necessary medical care at the hospital: “It looked like it was going to happen.” The last of the hospital admissions occurred three days earlier as a result of a stroke.
On Wednesday morning, a woman died in the eviction center of the City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the fronton of Lakua, according to ARGIA. The center opened at the beginning of the lockdown to house homeless people who slept in the street and are managed by the Red Cross. More than 48 hours after the death of the 42-year-old person, there is no official communication of death. ARGIA has contacted the users of the center and confirmed the death of the young woman.
On Wednesday, Y died. 5. Around 10:00 in the morning. “He was painting with his friends, he went to bed and at half an hour he was dead,” says a user from the center. After the appearance of three people in the City Hall, police and forensics, the body was moved within a couple of hours, according to the same sources.
Institutional concealment
Although the death has occurred in a municipal responsibility center, there is no official notification of the event in more than two days. Not only that: in addition to not being informed of the initiative itself, the leaders of the center have tried to prevent other people from learning about what happened, as explained to ARGIA sources from the center.
“The leaders of the Red Cross and the City Hall have told us not to say half a word.” Users of the fronton of Lakua are not minors and are therefore entitled to all rights as any other citizen, although they have reported that they have received such instructions.
“I was very sick, I saw it was going to happen.”
The deceased person had serious psychological and physical ailments, according to sources consulted by ARGIA. During confinement he has been transferred to the hospital on several occasions: “It wasn’t OK. He stayed in bed as dead, discolored, white and white, perhaps ten times.” I spent days without sleep, “and then I could sleep for 20 hours in a row. I was very medicalized. Such a person cannot be here.”
And. 5. They consider that A has not received the necessary medical care at the center. “Two or three times” has been hospitalized during these weeks. The last hospitalization was three or four days before death: “He gave him a stroke, he couldn’t move. He was taken to the hospital and in a few hours he was back there.”
Red Cross: “It has been a natural death.”
ARGIA spoke with the Red Cross press officer to ask him about what happened. The person responsible points out that they have not been informed of death because it is not related to COVID-19 and because it is “natural” not to see informative interest. In addition, he added that the information policy is decided by the City Council and not by the municipal policy. On health care for women, he said that the treatment given to each person is in the hands of Osakidetza. Asked about the order not to talk about what happened, he said that he has no record of it, that the people in the centre are older and that it is his right to speak or not.
City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz: “There has been no improper action”
This medium has also been contacted by the Area of Social Policies, Elderly and Children of the City of Vitoria-Gasteiz. The press officer explained that the reason for not reporting is that death is "natural." It has also denied that there have been attempts to conceal the information, so its origin is unknown. Although there has been no official communication, he pointed out that some media have asked for information about death, which has been given to them, “and they have seen nothing else” – when writing this news no information about death has been published anywhere. The news, as he explained, can be "counterproductive" for the family of the deceased.
The Department ' s press officer has highlighted the attention and services being provided to homeless people in downtown Lakua, “there has been no inadequate action.” He points out that health care is not the responsibility of the care center located on the fronton of Lakua.
Friends of your centre: “We are shattered”
The users of the center felt a great affection for the person who died in the hospital. “We’re shattered,” one of his friends says. And. 5. The pair of A is also in the middle: “It has already happened, he said to stress that he has not been given the necessary medical follow-up.” They reported that during the hours when the death occurred and the body was moved, users of the facility did not have any support or attention from third parties.
The Red Cross workers had to be with the police "when we were missing the most, to give them emotional and human support". We did self-care for ourselves. Two of the social workers who work with them during these weeks, who didn't have a job on Wednesday, came to the center to try to be with the users. According to the ARGIA source, the local authorities denied access to housing. “Here’s how they treat us.” In the coming days, a new psychological reinforcement has been put in place in the centre.
On Thursday, the day after death, the Y has been celebrated in San Miguel. 5. Funeral of A. A dozen people from the center have come to the place to greet the friend and express their condolences to the family. In their honor they want to plant a tree outside the center, “we want to ask permission from the City Hall.”
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