Montevideo, 26 mar ( EFE).- the main responsible politicians and the authorities of public and private health institutions Uruguay pledged today to work together to restore confidence to a very damaged system in the case of nurses that killed at least 15 of their patients.
In a meeting convened by the National Board of health (Junasa), all actors of the health of the country considered imperative to strengthen public trust in all the institutions and pledged to make “maximum efforts to rehabilitate and strengthen” the same “as a superior in health care value”.
The meeting was chaired by the Minister of health, Jorge Venegas, who called for a “speedy recovery” of belief in the health system and pointed by this work will require the joint effort of the Ministry of public health, both public effectors, private, workers and users.
Precisely this meeting was intended to work already at this point looking for informed officially about the murders committed by the two nurses working in hospitals Maciel and the Spanish Association and on the measures taken in this regard.
In a joint communiqué issued after the meeting, all stakeholders highlighted that “the painful episode” the nurses had to do only with “people who decided and acted” violating the law and the most elementary sense of humanity.
“One of the most important factors for the operation of the complex process of the health care, is confidence among doctors, staff of the health and population, and in particular patients.” “These crimes as well as its high and painful balance of human lives, affected the fundamental capital: confidence”, reasoned the release.
, Pledged “to provide justice full cooperation and the necessary information” that define the criminal responsibilities and corresponding punishment for the case and showed “its full confidence” in his actions.
In addition, charged “scaremongering” installed in society because “it does not contribute to an efficient outcome of the investigations” or to improve “health care to the population”.
, The Secretary of the Uruguayan Presidency, Alberto Breccia, reported today after the Council of Ministers “not raised the possibility of removals within the Ministry of public health” by the case and denied that the situation has generated “a crisis in the integrated health system”.
Since that case reached public dimension the past day 17, when police arrested the nurses Ariel Acevedo and Marcelo Pereira accused of killing patients in intensive care, a wave of suspicion fell on Uruguayan health system.
Relatives of possible victims of the nurses and others in recent years housed suspicions about the death of their loved ones while they were in various hospitals collected about 500 complaints to bring them to justice for similar acts.
In addition, also criticizes the lack of controls and the possibility that the authorities had ignored previous allegations that could have revealed much before the murderers. EFE
