Opinion Intersindical Salut: «The clamor against the economic director of La Pedrera grows»
We do not believe it. It seems that if there are no denunciations of the unions, either before the corresponding institutions, or before the public opinion in the press, the Economic Director of the Hospital La Pedrera does not move tab. But the levels of indignation among the workers who depend on him, and among the union delegates who represent them, are reaching unsuspected levels.
After denouncing the hazardous conditions of the hospital kitchen, in which there was an imminent risk of electrocution due to the defective state of the washing train, the Bureau tried to hide from the workers' representatives the hard report issued by the Prevention Unit Of Occupational Risks of the own Conselleria of Sanitat. This report, in which, among many other measures, the management of the center was «remove obsolete electrical wiring and replace any that are in poor condition (rusty, broken)», Was hidden from the Personnel Board from April 4 until 28 the same month, on which day members of the Board made the necessary arrangements and were able to access it.
This fact, which in itself is already a sample of the style of management prevailing in the Hospital La Pedrera, in which transparency, communication with workers' representatives, and their participation in measures That they were involved, was followed by a meeting of the own economic director with the kitchen workers in which he told them that he knew nothing of what was happening, and that if he had known, he would not have allowed them to work under those conditions. This statement, which can only be considered as a mockery of the workers, has been followed by another more alarming statement if it fits.
Specifically the director told the workers that the repair was very costly and that the boiler was going to pay half between the concessionaire company ISS Catering Solutions and the hospital itself. This decision is in direct contravention of the provisions of the Terms of Reference, art. 2.1 where it is said that, among many others, the company has the obligation, 'included in the price of the contract', of the 'integral maintenance of facilities, equipment, machinery, utensils, etc. necessary for the provision of the service'. Also the same specification in its art. 9.8.1 says that it is a serious breach 'not to guarantee the adequacy of facilities and equipment complementary to the norms established in the legislation in force or that, eventually, be established by the Administration'. We are therefore faced with a clear case of infringement, which according to the same statement should be penalized in amount from 5.001 to 35.000 euros.
Instead, the economic director undertakes to pay half the amount of the boiler. All of this is in direct accordance with the dark relationship that this manager maintains with the kitchen company. See our press release issued last April titled 'Nepotism in the kitchen of La Pedrera Hospital'. It cannot be explained in any other way that after multiple non-compliance, inspections and sanctions by the Denia Public Health Center, two of the three cold rooms in the kitchen continue to not work, in which different foods are accumulated, contravening the need to store all products in different cameras. Or that more than two months after the alarm went off with the washing train, the household items are being washed by hand, making it completely impossible to reach the 65ºC established by the regulations for sanitizing them. It is a real shame, and unworthy of a public hospital that aspires to excellence, that the place where the food for admitted patients is stored and processed does not comply with the hygiene regulations established by the Ministry of Health itself and that no one in the The Ministry itself does nothing about it.
The kitchen issue is undoubtedly the most bloody, but by no means the only reason for Intersindical Salut to reiterate, with light and stenographers, the request made several months ago by the Personnel Board, namely, the immediate cessation of the Economic Director of La Pedrera Hospital. The deplorable state of the hospital's maintenance, irregular contracts with external companies, concealment of information from the Personnel Board, abandonment of responsibilities...
In this sense, it is paradigmatic that after seven years of operation of the CSI Denia, a center that depends on Marina Salud, the La Pedrera Hospital continues to pay the electricity and water bills, as easy as it would have been to install independent meters. All of this is a string that is already too long for a manager, who, more importantly, comes from the time of the Popular Party, to continue to remain in office without
Let no one know how or why.