Although it has not yet been officially confirmed, it is understood that the Balearic Government will replace Vicente Soria as director of the 112 emergency center. A new appointment will be made in a matter of days.
The reason, according to sources, is that someone with a more technical background is sought for the position; The 112 service faces a series of challenges related to new technologies.
Soria's dismissal, it is said, has "absolutely nothing" to do with this week's case of the man who He seemed to be dead in the Riera torrent in Palma but later died at the Son Espases Hospital.
There are doubts about what really happened on Wednesday morning, as there are indications that there was two separate and unrelated incidents - a call to 112 at 5:40 a.m. and the discovery of the man (Moroccan, about 40 years old) in the stream two and a half hours later.
The Patient Advocate association has complained to the The prosecutor's office open an investigation into the response of the emergency services and, therefore, the communications between 112, the police and the medical services. In a statement, the association states: "The big question remains whether this man would still be alive if he had not taken so long to act."
In May of last year, Soria explained to the media that the 112 computer system was created in 1995 and was "totally obsolete". This year a new system will be put into operation. In November, a union released a scathing report on working conditions at the 112 center.
