Montevideo, 22 mar ( EFE).- the President of Uruguay José Mujica described today as “a nonsense” that the staff of intensive care centres to work 12 hours in its early statements public in the case of two nurses accused and imprisoned for murdering 15 patients.
Addition, felt that his countrymen are in “ shock” and statements that publishes today the weekly “Search” said that “health staff has to refine the conduct and treatment with the people”.
To refer to criticism for alleged failures in the control system to which would have facilitated the actions of nurses, Mujica stated that “the controls are to detect medical failures” and not to act “against a criminal”.
In the view of the President, the work continued in intensive care centres “tends to generate a kind of rigidity autodefensiva with pain and piety”.
“No one should work in the CTI many years and the same in psychiatric hospitals”, said Mujica, and described as “nonsense” to nurses who are required to work 12 hours in two health centres.
Representative said that “there is much to improve” in apparent reference to the Uruguayan health system and said that you “wonder” as they are handled elsewhere such as Germany and Sweden.
El judge Rolando Giordano indicted nurse Ariel Acevedo, 46, on Sunday by 10 cases of “especially aggravated homicide” and the also nurse Marcelo Pereira, 39 years, five cases.
The first worked in the mutual Spanish Association and the second at the same health centre and also the Maciel Hospital, dependent on the State, in both cases serving patients in intensive care (CTI) units.
Acevedo applied air in the veins to kill their patients and Pereira different controlled drugs, as they admitted before the judge.
Both were acted by “piety”, but the judge ruled out such a possibility and said that some of the victims “were not terminally ill patients”.
Justice and the police, there are indications that cases of murders “could be quite a few more”, said judicial sources told Efe.
“67 Complaints of suspected cases” were received so far in the Ministry of public health, said today the Director of the integrated national system of health, Elena Clavell.
However, at the level of the Ministry of the Interior complaints exceed the about two hundred and therefore it was decided to strengthen the service created to receive consultations of the population.
The Minister of public health, Jorge Venegas, contested this afternoon (17.00 GMT) to Parliament to inform the Health Committee of the Chambers of Senators and deputies on approved measures that include audits in all the country special care centres and increased controls on the health workforce.
For some of the measures the authorities will have the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). EFE
