Montevideo, 28 mar ( EFE).-the Trade Union Uruguay doctor ( SMU) ruled out today that the medical and nurse arrested by “dubious” the death of a patient are being investigated by homicide and pointed to a case “of malpractice linked to care of terminally ill patients“.
At a press conference convened urgently, the head of the SMU, MartÃn Rebella, ruled out also to the media that there is any link between these arrests and the case of two nurses processed by the self-confessed murder of at least 15 patients in intensive care of Montevideo units.
“Information handle us, that it is not official, is that there is a colleague and a nurse are being these at this time by a possible case of malpractice linked to care of terminally ill”, Rebella told reporters.
Physician, who personally attended the courts of Cologne, located about 180 kilometers to the West of Montevideo, and where they are being interrogated both women to be informed of the case, he insisted repeatedly in the research “has nothing to do with homicide”.
“I not know it inyectara nothing to advance the death, this would involve euthanasia.” “I not know that is the complaint,” said Rebella before the questions of journalists.
Responsible for the SMU indicated that the Union was “very concerned” by this event primarily by his “presence in public opinion” and because no doubt “generates a deterioration of confidence in the health system and medical”.
Even so, indicated that while they are not prepared to pass judgment on the fact in particular, which is still investigating, the SMU made available the prisoners their legal services for “that meets its due process”.
The two women were arrested today in Cologne before a complaint linked them to death “dubious” of a 99-year-old woman died at the hospital in the town.
This event came just nine days after the justice process nurses Ariel Acevedo, 46, and Marcelo Pereira, 39-year-old for murdering ten and five patients in intensive care at two hospitals in Montevideo units respectively. EFE
