Closing of an elderly residence in Malaga: “My grandfather told me they were hitting him” | Society
The grandfather of Malagaña Amelia Prieto entered a residence of private elderly in July 2022. He did it under the recommendation of the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella. They did not allow him to see up to two days later and, when he did, he liked “very little” because there was very dirt and did not allow him to see all the structures. During the second visit he saw his relative relative and in the third he asked him to pull him out of there. “He told me they were hitting him,” says Prieto, that days later he achieved his goal. Then he brought the man to the hospital for a check and was diagnosed with a scabies. “He brought her there because everything was very dirty, disgusting”, recalls the woman, who does not understand the abandonment of the users of the center and, much less, who was opened for a decade until the junta de Andalucía closed it less than a month ago for having missed a license and for having broken the architectural regulations. “Nobody passed to see how the elderly were in all that time?” Asks. The Andalusian administration did not explain why it took us so much time to close a place that was missing from the permit. Nor the city of Malaga.
The residence of La Coraca was on a way out of Calderón ChiusaOne of the most exclusive areas of the Andalusian city. His structures were those of a huge house with a dozen rooms owned by María Salud Soorrío and her husband. They managed a nursery until they changed work and about ten years ago rent the property to two sisters, who launched the center of the elderly. Almost three years ago, Prieto brought his grandfather from there for bad condition, but he is not the only one. Victoria said that his father spent a year and a half after the recommendation of the Malaga regional hospital. When I was finding him “I was always with Pipí” and there was dirty everywhere. They paid 1,500 euros per month.
His are not the only complaints. The reviews on Google follow the same path. “I recommend to all the relatives you have your father or mother there to take him out as soon as possible,” said Montse García in 2023. “A thousand irregularities that my father and the other residents have passed,” added Aurora Cestino. “Total abandonment,” said Susana Montero a month ago, just when it was announced that the center closed. “Nor did they abuse grandparents or have not eaten. None of this”, the director of the residence, Mercedes Vera, defended in the program We see, From Telecinco, this Friday.
Humidity on the walls
During the morning the house worked as a TV. The cameras and the micro rested between bottles of bleach, destroyed appliances or old parks. Numerous chains have made their direction there to say the situation in which María’s property Salud Sorortho found a month ago, when his tenants left. “They say I did the damage, but this has much more time. It’s impossible for us to have left him in 15 days,” said the woman.
He showed the humidity in one of the rooms, the oxidized shelves of the bathrooms, the floor raised by the bathrooms, the dirt accumulated in the common areas, the dirty swimming pool, the mattresses with urine, the damage in the furniture. She, next to her husband, has cleaned part of the house and accumulated many personal effects to launch or donate them. There are about fifteen rods, a pair of wheelchairs, dozens of packages for diapers. Garden grass is already raising a meter from the ground. “They left the grandparents alone”The woman underlined.
Andrés Pérez, a family lawyer, together with an elderly company and a private detective, entered the house on March 30 with a cell phone forward to show the damage. So they filed a complaint, in which they underline that the tenants owe almost 85,000 euros and that in the situation in which the farm and behaviors of the two people denounced “they left” all the elements of the crime of damages are in conventions I do not understand that this situation has been allowed “, added the owner.
“We closed the residence of La Coracha for not having respected the regulations at the request of the inspection of the social services of the territorial delegation”, said sources of the Junta de Andalucía, where they clarified that it was a private center without concerted places. Thursday, Patricia Navarro, delegate of the Andalusian government of Malaga, said that it has closed after “different relationships and different inspections” and that the requirements “in terms of architectural regulations” have not been satisfied, which “could put the safety and even the life of users at risk”. Given the questions of this newspaper, the Council did not provide further explanations on why the residence had not been inspected – which was announced on the internet and, moreover, it was recommended by public hospitals – or as it worked without a license. Nor did the city of Malaga replied.
