Montevideo, 9 APR (EFE).-the authorities of the Ministry of public health Uruguay today announced the submission to justice for six new cases of deaths of patients allegedly committed by the two nurses accused of murdering 15 people in intensive care from two hospitals in Montevideo units.
In a statement, the authorities indicated that these six suspected cases arise from the study of 257 claims the Ministry received since the outbreak the case and involving cases of suspicious deaths in the units where nurses worked.
Justice will now need to determine if it starts its own research on six new complaints.
As reported by the MSP, the criterion followed in his analysis of complaints received was first to analyze those that occurred in the Centre of Neuro surgical treatment of the hospital of the Spanish Association and the unit of coronary care of the Maciel Hospital, where occurred the murder confessed to the nurses.
Of all of these, considered those whose “causes of death have not been clear or suspicious, according to history, the story of the complainant, family and provided documentation”.
Third, pointed to the facts with some “criminal semblance” attributable to defendants workers.
The Legal advice of the MSP was commissioned to review case by case and select that in the end will be at the hands of justice.
The past March 19 all Uruguay was shocked when met the nurses Ariel Acevedo, 46, and Marcelo Pereira, 39, were processed by at least 15 cases of “especially aggravated homicide” committed in patients under their care.
The first injected air into the veins to their patients and the second supplied them intravenously powerful drugs such as morphine, fenergan or dormicum.
Both justified these deaths for “humanitarian reasons”, but the judge who indicted them, Rolando Vomero, discarded mobile phones of both were “pious”.
The judge indicted, in addition, with prison nurse Andrea Acosta “complicity”.
These events triggered a wave of allegations and suspicions about the practices of the nurses who came by the hundreds, both the police and health authorities and that sowed mistrust in the Uruguayan health as a whole.
In fact, the past March 28, a doctor and a nurse at a hospital in the interior of the country were arrested for the death “suspicious” of a 99-year-old patient, while in this case Justice dismissed the imprisonment of the accused.
The Minister of health Uruguay, Jorge Venegas (d), and the Undersecretary of the portfolio, Leonel Briozzo (i) participating on March 20, 2012, at a press conference in Montevideo (Uruguay), on the victims of the two nurses charged with the murder of patients in intensive care units. EFE/file
