translated from Spanish: doctor jailed for abuse of authority in Chiapas

Gerardo Vicente Grajales Yuca, 41, spent his first night in prison on July 25. A traumatic experience for a doctor who claims to have never had “even a traffic ticket.” That day he left his home in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, when ministerial agents arrested him two blocks later accused of “abuse of authority”.
Until that time he was head of emergency and Critical Medicine of the Hospital of Specialties Better Life, of the Institute of Social Security of Workers of the State of Chiapas (Isstech). But a complaint made by the daughter of a patient who had died from COVID-19 made him a suspect. The applicant points this out because he allegedly asked him to buy medicines and then keep it. Specifically, an infusion pump, which is a device used to inject fluids into the patient. 
The doctor was imprisoned for just over a week until a judge determined home prison. Since then he has been locked in his own house, turned into a cell. The State Attorney General’s Office filed him for abuse of authority, but he claims he is innocent. His lawyer, Antonio Juarez, claims that he is “a political prisoner.” The I Am Medical Movement 17 has planned marches to support the galleon.  
“I’m innocent. I never took anything. I don’t know why they’re doing this,” says Grajales Yuca in a telephone conversation with Animal Politician. He speaks slowly, as if forced to stay calm. You have heart problems and stress is an aggravating way for your condition. 
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The case of Grajales Yuca has generated the anger of the medical community in Chiapas. Protests have been in solidarity with the Weon for days and to denounce the lack of inputs with which coVID-19 are dealing with the pandemic.
The doctor explains that the situation in the hospital was of many deficiencies, which were aggravated by the coronavirus. 
“I was the first specialist doctor to enter that area. We were all afraid. We knew we could die. That’s why you’re taking a chance,” he explains. Your personal situation is complicated. Because of your heart disease and hypertension, you are a population of risk. He could have stayed home. But he didn’t.
When you remember that first wave you recognize defeat, but it doesn’t look for guilt. “We were 400%over the back of 500%. But it wasn’t just us. Everybody suffered it. Not just Chiapas, not Mexico, it’s the whole world.” 
The key date for the doctor’s story is July 7. Miguel Arturo Ramírez López died that day, with past in the PRI, PAN and Verde, which maintained a lot of influence in the territory. He was the one who has been attending him since he entered the center by COVID-19.
“I kept on the record that we had done what we could,” says Grajales Yuca. 
At least, that says he was passed on to the relatives of the deceased.
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On July 18, however, Karen Alejandra Ramirez, the patient’s daughter, filed a complaint of “abuse of authority” and claimed that the doctor had her buy some drugs that she would later stay for himself. 
Grajales’ defense made public the recording of a conversation between Ramirez herself and Grajales Yuca. In it, the deceased patient’s daughter is grateful for the treatment and acknowledges that she knows that her father was being cared for there for his political connections, as he was not a right-to-be. 
This is one of the derivatives of the process against the head of the ER: the alleged existence of a plant intended for VIP personnel who sometimes did not even have the services to be attended to the clinic.
“I knew they were important people because you could tell the situation,” says Grajales Yuca. He claims that “it was difficult to distinguish him, but there were certain situations of stretchers and fans with better inputs. That was a little familiar.”
According to his testimony, he was the director general of the Institute, Alberto Cundapí Núñez, who was behind this bunker. “The commission was a constant situation. We had to keep an eye on it,” he explains.
Animal Político consulted with the Chiapas Health Secretariat and Isstech. The first derived the question to seconds and, at the close of the note, there was no answer. 
For Grajales Yuca, the entry into prison was a shock. “I felt destroyed, beaten, impressed,” he explains. 
During the days he was locked up, he was isolated, due to the protocol by COVID-19. In there his illness was aggravated, so he was taken to a hospital. Subsequently, a judge determined that he could go to his home, although he was still incarceum and linked to process. According to infFGE, the guard will lengthen for the next four months. 
“It’s a very sad and depressing situation. You feel like crying. I was thinking about my family, my baby, that I wanted to see them, hug them, and I couldn’t,” Says Grajales Yuca about his time in prison. 
The key to the case is the alleged appropriation of sanitary equipment. Against Grajales Yuca is the complaint filed by the daughter of the deceased patient and the testimony of a collaborator, Ana Paola, who also works in the hospital. In his defense is his own testimony and that of another nurse, who assured the judge that the doctor never touched that bomb, that people who claimed to be relatives of Miguel Arturo Ramírez López said that they wanted to donate it and that she referred to Ana Paola, the woman who testifies against the doctor.
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Antonio Juarez, the lawyer, denounces the “disproportion” of imprisoning the doctor for a crime that is considered minor. 
“We have shown that it is innocent, but it is a political issue. They go against him because he denounced the poor conditions and lack of hospital supplies,” says Juarez. 
Meanwhile, your client is still locked up at home and unable to work. Although he also needs rest, as his health was affected. 
“I still don’t know why they did it I don’t know the reasons. I didn’t do anything wrong. I did my best to get your relatives through. But I’d like to tell you that I don’t hold a grudge against you,” says Grajales Yuca.
Towards the institutions, the doctor has a request: “I would ask the prosecutor (Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca) to please take my case personally, so that he can see all the evidence.”
Today Sunday marches are planned in various marches to support Dr. Grajales. They will also demand the arrest of the killers of Dr. Mélida Honorato Gabriel, director of the community hospital of Huamuxtitlán, Guerrero; and a public apology for nurse Michelle Garcia, of the Lion’s Pediatrics, Guanajuato, and arrested for twelve hours after accusing him of not providing help to a patient. 
“It’s awesome to see the amount of support,” says Yuca’s Beath war. 
Your case leaves a lot of questions. First, the doctor’s personal situation, which insists on his innocence. Second, the alleged irregularities in the Chiapas Health System, the shortage of inputs and the alleged existence of that VIP bunker in which only influential people could be treated. 
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Original source in Spanish