Montevideo, 28 mar ( EFE).-the workers of Maciel Hospital of Montevideo, where the nurse Marcelo Pereira murdered at least five patients admitted to the intensive care unit, came today to express its I-repudiation for those crimes, considered “an isolated event”.
For the first time since last week knew the detention of Pereira and another nurse, Ariel Acevedo, accused of the death of ten patients in the hospital of the Spanish Association, workers of the Maciel came to assess what happened and took to protest working conditions.
. The spokesperson of the nurses of the hospital, Gustavo Gianre, read a statement at the entrance of the hospital in which expressed its “deepest solidarity with the families concerned” and recalled that what happened “has nothing to do with the profession of nursing, where life and the human value are priority”.
“Had need to communicate everything what hurt us this situation and show that we are for life, beyond of everything that happened.” “We continue to work and our patients are admitted,” told Gianre the media.
Workers indicated that, beyond these events, employees of the Maciel are several months requesting greater human and material resources to meet their work and for users to have “care safe, responsible and effective” their rightful.
Gianre insisted that precisely because of its responsibility, employees have continued to work these days despite the difficult circumstances in which they were, and why users, that the first few days after the scandal were wary of nurses “given that we are with them”.
“We consider that mistrust was easing, people saw it here works well, working honestly, not in the best conditions, but colleagues demonstrating the fortitude brought the work forward,” indicated.
View of the facade of the Maciel Hospital in Montevideo (Uruguay). EFE/file
