Montevideo, 19 mar (EFE).-A syringe found near a dead patient a week ago was key to clarify the case of two Uruguayan nurses that were processed on Sunday by the killing of 16 patients in two hospitals of Montevideo, police sources indicated today.
Gladys Lemos, a diabetic woman aged 74, admitted to Hospital Maciel, dependent on the State, died suddenly on 12 March Monday shortly after receiving the medical discharge.
Women was interned ten days due to various physical problems, but doctors were able to stabilize. However, after receiving the high, it descompensó and shortly afterwards died.
The Uruguayan police, investigating some doubtful deaths in hospital, from January found a syringe next to women with remains of lidocaine which not he had been prescribed by doctors and was subsequently determined that the syringe came from another private health centre.
Investigations resulted in the responsibility of a nurse, 39 years old, who worked in the hospital and also the first Spanish Association of mutual aid, where he stole the syringe.
The police also arrested for the same cause another nurse in 46 years, who also worked in the private health centre, so the Criminal Court judge Rolando Vomero indicted them and ordered the income in prison of both accused of “especially aggravated homicide”.
“For photographs one (accused) recognized five and another eleven victims and investigations will continue”, said judge after a day of interrogation that lasted for eleven hours.
One of the nurses “applied morphine” to victims and other “air through a central” what “was causing the death in a few minutes,” explained Giordano.
The judge said that the research “stems not connection” between the cases and added that they were “independent situations”.
Nurses defenders claimed that those now imprisoned acted “piety” and to “temper the pain of his patients”, although the judge Giordano said that the victims “not all were terminally ill patients”.
Photography taken this Sunday in which took place at Uruguay, Jorge Venegas, Health Minister during a press conference in Montevideo, where reported on two Uruguayan nurses that were processed by the death of sixteen patients in intensive care from two hospitals in the Uruguayan capital. EFE
