Montevideo, 28 mar (EFE).-the arrest today of a nurse and a physician at the “dubious” death in a hospital of a 99-year-old patient again fired in Uruguay alarms just ten days after the prosecution of two nurses for the murder of fifteen patients in intensive care units.
The arrest, which occurred in the town of Cologne, located about 180 kilometers to the West of Montevideo, came after police received a complaint from relatives of the alleged victim, a 99-year-old woman and was in State terminal, by the “dubious” of his death circumstances, reported EfE official sources.
Information on the case ensued throughout the day and, even, he speculated on the possibility of it were a research dealing with a larger number of deaths and several detainees more.
However, EfE reported that the director of health in the Department of Colonia Jorge Mota there only two women arrested for this case, which are giving statement to justice, and that it is exclusively a complaint related to this death, which occurred in early March.
Both police sources as those responsible for the health of the Department also completely discarded the linking of this event with the crimes committed by nurses at two hospitals in Montevideo.
Mota noted that the complaint against two officials of health processed directly through the police and health authorities had no knowledge of it until the arrest of women, a practice which considered to be fruit of social tension caused by the case of nurses.
“about Montevideo escaped any rules.” There are crimes when it kills former teachers, which is not the same as a malpractice or the unwritten situation that occurs in all parts of the world, that is when ordering do not resuscitate a terminally ill. “In this case still can be any of these options or even absolute innocence,” said Mota.
In the same direction were responsible for the Division of organized crime and the Ministry of the Interior, who preferred not to express views on the alleged responsibility of the detainees in this latest death on the grounds that “cannot be traced all deaths to a homicidal Act” and “age” of the victim “is also important”.
Responsible for the doctor Uruguay Union (SMU) were even further and in a press conference convened with urgently ruled out that the two women are being investigated by homicide and pointed towards a case “of malpractice linked to care of terminally ill patients”.
While this happened in Cologne, the Association of Spanish users, the hospital where nurse Ariel Acevedo confessed to having killed at least ten patients, reported in a press conference in Montevideo have received other four complaints by “irregular deaths” in the halls of the ICU of the medical institution.
As noted the Organization, these allegations come from relatives of people who died between January and March in places where he worked not Acevedo.
These complaints must add them to the close to 500 other Uruguayan users of health organizations have been collected since that jumped out the case on irregular deaths in hospitals, public and private in the country.
Acevedo, 46 years old, and Pereira, 39 years old, were prosecuted last day 18 after having confessed to several killings of patients in intensive care units.
The first committed the crimes injecting them with air into the vein to their victims in the Spanish Association and the second providing drugs such as morphine, fenergan or dormincum, in the Maciel Hospital, also of the Uruguayan capital.
Both justified the killings for “humanitarian reasons”, but the judge who indicted them, Rolando Vomero, rejected that the crimes would “mobile pious”.
The Uruguayan Penal code points as defence of guilt in a murder that the author has “honorable background” and there are “repeated appeals of the victim” to the end of his life. EFE
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