The Seville Court has given the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the PP, which acts as a private prosecutor, three days to make allegations regarding the report presented by the medical services of the Seville Prison on the possibility that the former President of the Board of Directors, José Antonio Griñán, who was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement in the ERE case, can still receive treatment for his cancer if he goes to prison. The document to which this newspaper had access is not decisive in this regard and is limited to a description of the healthcare and hospital discharges provided by the facility.
The judges of the first section of the hearing decided to delay Griñán’s jail sentence until he had completed the radiation therapy sessions he underwent after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. The judges passed the measure after both the anti-corruption agency and the PP called for the execution of the sentence to be stayed in the face of the forensic report which argued that the former socialist leader should not be sent to a central prison. “We understand that delaying the execution of the sentence until the prisoner has completed the radiation therapy sessions is appropriate, given the inconvenience and risks that treatment in prison could entail, both in terms of the disease and the dynamics of the disease centre,” the order indicated, emphasizing that after the treatment – of 23 uninterrupted sessions – Griñán should be re-examined by the coroner in order “to reassess, with more data, the advisability and possibility of her admission to the correctional center.
The court agreed to collect the report from the prison on January 13, and the parties were notified this Monday. The document is not categorical about whether Griñán will be able to continue the necessary treatment for the cancer that appears to be in that prison, but merely lists inmates’ rights to medical care and lists the medical services that available to the prison. Institution, its human resources and the organization and operation of this medical care.
Transfer to hospitals for cancer treatment
According to the report, in the Compliance Unit and Prevention Unit, there are five primary care consultations, two waiting rooms, a treatment room, and a nursing module that accommodates inmates who may need more attention and follow-up care, including a medical doctor Consultation hours and a treatment room. In the mixed unit there is also a medical consultation and a treatment room. The document states that “currently and due to renovation work at the center, only one of the infirmaries with a capacity of 21 patients is in use”. The staff consists of five family and community medicine specialists, one pharmacist, eight nurses, one supervisor, five clinical assistants and three administrative staff.
In terms of the medical care model, it replicates the operation of the primary care of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS). Regarding the specialized care that would correspond to Griñán, the patients are referred to the Virgen del Rocío and Virgen Macarena hospitals in Seville. First they receive the medical report from the prison doctor, requesting that the inmates be treated in these centers. Interrelationship with these hospitals exists for all specialties, including oncology and dialysis. Once the application has been made, the patient is considered available to meet the requirements set by each specialist and it is the correctional facility that is responsible for all relevant procedures so that the necessary care can be provided. These include diagnostic procedures – specialized tests, such as a CT scan – or therapeutic procedures – such as chemotherapy sessions, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, physical therapy, dialysis “in as many sessions as the specialist deems necessary” and “with the considered frequency” – .
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‘There are many patients who have been and are treated continuously from the various specialties, so their review consultations are carried out by these specialists with the periodicity they value,’ the report concludes. During 2021, 576 cancer consultations and 535 radiation therapy sessions were conducted in Spanish prisons, the latter all outside prisons, according to the latest General Report on Prisons, which collects data from this year. According to sources from the Andalusian Supreme Court consulted by this newspaper, there are no statistics on the number of executions of suspended prison sentences for serious health reasons.
However, the report notes the prisons’ concern about the lack of doctors in some prisons “causes difficulties in providing health care to persons deprived of their liberty” – although it does not indicate that this circumstance occurs in the center of Seville – and “the major problem in this Related are the urgent hospitalizations due to the “lack” of National Police agents — a fact that occurs in this prison.
Given the inaccuracy of the document transmitted by the Seville prison, the PP, as it has done throughout the case of the political part of the ERE, will await the explanation of the prosecutor to adhere to its opinion, as it has explained this daily Sources close to the popular leadership in Andalusia.