Reports are on the deaths of four seniors that were living at a government run senior home, Hogar de Ancianos Club de Leones in northeastern Sánchez Ramírez.
Dionis Antigua Rodríguez, director of the center, said that neither the Ministry of Public Health nor the National Council for the Aging (Conape) had responded to calls for medical assistance.
Public Health Minister Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas announced that the senior home in Sánchez Ramírez province (Cotuí) has been intervened by the Ministry of Public Health authorities. He said the home runs under the programs of the National Council for the Aging (Conape).
He said the senior home in Sánchez Ramírez had been intervened and sanitized. He said at the home there were 36 seniors and 6 nuns, for a total of 42 persons living at the center. Of these 12 seniors and four nuns were transferred to hospitals after suffering Covid-19 symptoms. Now remaining at the home are 21 seniors, two nuns, two nurses and two paramedics, or 17 persons.
He said a Cotuí businessman has offered to assist in delivering meals from the state canteens (comedores economicos).
Sánchez Cárdenas criticized that the center’s manager spent time in New York during the crisis. He said the government would act given the difficulties created by the negligence. He did not name the person.
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31 March 2020