Ãlvaro Mellizo
Montevideo, mar 21 ( EFE).- morphine for sleep sick with respiratory problems and inoculate 20 centimeters cubic air in the veins to allow “rest” admitted to intensive care were part of the methods that used two nurses, accused of killing 15 patients in two hospitals in Montevideo.
As it can be seen from the judicial indictment released today, two nurses employed these methods in its activities, considered as acts “pious” and “beneficial for humanity”.
In their statements to the judge Rolando Vomero, the nurse of 46 years Ariel Acevedo, working at the Spanish Association of mutual aid and which is responsible for the deaths of ten people, said have used a syringe 20 cubic centimeters to inject a number of patients.
“How do many?, it is impossible to answer, because it is not a thing to keep track.” “Did it for, what I am about to say is contradictory, but I did for humanity”, said Acevedo in the courts as it picks up the order of the investigating judge.
Acevedo, who acknowledged ten people as victims in the list presented after being arrested, confessed that his performance occurred because “it was the limit” of his person by the suffering of the people and that is why he took the decision “to let the people suffer”.
but spent so much time and saw that, continued and continued.” “And, I repeat, my intention was not stop life, but let rest” said.
Meanwhile, Marcelo Pereira, 39, accused of five murders and father of two children, confessed to having “provided medication was not in medical history to patients who were at terminal stage”.
The case that finally allowed arresting two nurses, who knew but not acting together, was precisely one of these interventions by Pereira.
The past March 12, Gladys Lemos joined the Maciel hospital with a picture of hypoglycemia caused by his diabetes.
“this lady I I went to control and was with significant hypotension.” It was with respiratory work. I tried to communicate with her, he wanted to know if it was located in time and space, was not. It was a deficit on the right side and with a term aphasia. “Then he managed a phial of morphine, not in order to kill her, but in order to sedate her”, Pereira told the judge.
After supplying drugs, women went into respiratory arrest and the nurse felt a snoring, after which moved to control other patients.
Then sought out the doctor and the nurse to perform resuscitation of women, maneuver in which participated without saying that he had injected morphine.
In its report, the coroner ruled that it had lidocaine in the blood, something contraindicated with his illness, despite which the doctor indicated that the cause of death was undetermined.
The nurse admitted that the maneuver was made with other four patients.
“don’t remember what other patients did so.” I do not deny that I have given sedatives to patients, but don’t remember the patient. I remember they were patients who had a vital prognosis. They are patients where there is not a resolution of life. “Patients who were suffering were” pointed out.
Precisely the nurse particularly regretted that is do not give drugs of this type to patients who can not breathe for example and suffer for that reason.
, Pereira noted that if his mother and his father were in a situation as well “he would talk to the doctor so that they sedaran them”.
“my mistake was to have managed without medical authorization.” “Was not to kill anyone,” said.
The nurse insisted before the judge in these thesis, regretting that “I don’t know on a whim of who”, is not taken the determination of sedation to patients so that “they can finally rest in peace”. EFE
