Vigil for deaths in nursing homes due to covid

BGUK_2596544 - A group of relatives of people who died in Madrid during the coronavirus pandemic organized a vigil this Saturday in Cibeles Square to honor the victims. The call, promoted by the 'Verdad y Justicia' and 'Marea de Residencias' platforms, coincided with the third anniversary of the signing of the first protocol for hospital referral from residences in the Community of Madrid, during the first wave of the pandemic . These associations denounce that 7,291 elderly and dependent people who "were led to certain death" by stopping referring patients from residences to hospitals. Family members have gathered next to the cauldron that the Madrid City Council installed in front of Plaza de Cibeles to honor those who died in the pandemic. There, those attending the vigil have left flowers and candles and have hung a banner that reads: "7,291 residents died abandoned without health care. Tide of Residences demands justice!". “We want this not to be forgotten, it is a figure important enough to request an investigation commission, which we are creating, and it is the anniversary of the first protocol of the Ayuso Government in which there was a massive exclusion of not taking residents to hospitals, with the bleeding that there were free beds in private hospitals”, says Mercedes, organizer and daughter of one of those who died in a residence