Overview
- Javier Martínez Peromingo testified in Madrid as an accused, stating he opposed the triage protocols and warned superiors in writing via emails and WhatsApp.
- The protocols under investigation, signed by former health official Carlos Mur, have been linked to limiting hospital transfers from care homes during the first COVID-19 wave.
- Mur and former SUMMA 112 chief Pablo Busca did not appear for questioning and have not been located, prompting requests for search-and-arrest (busca y captura) orders.
- Peromingo told the court many residences were not medicalized due to shortages of material and staff, adding there was no real strategy to implement medicalization.
- This marks the first testimony as an accused by a former Madrid regional official over nursing-home management in early 2020, a case tied to thousands of deaths without hospital care.