‘Didn`t give a damn`: Inside a ravaged Spanish nursing home
(WorldNews Spain)

MADRID (AP) — Zoilo Patiño was just one of more than 19,000 elderly people to die of coronavirus in Spain`s nursing homes but he has come to symbolize a system of caring for the country`s most vulnerable that critics say is desperately broken. When the Alzheimer`s-stricken 84-year-old succumbed in March on the same day 200 others died across Madrid, funeral homes were too overwhelmed to take his body and he was instead left locked in the same room, in the same bed, where he died. Spanish army disinfecting teams going through the Usera Center for the Elderly more than 24 hours later were stunned to come across Patiño`s body and it made headlines around the world, with the country`s Defense...