Montevideo, 9 APR (EFE).-the authorities of the Ministry of public health (MSP) of Uruguay today announced the submission to justice for six new complaints about possible crimes committed by two nurses who killed at least 15 people while working at two hospitals in Montevideo intensive care units.
In a statement, the authorities indicated that these six suspected cases arise from the study of 257 claims that the Ministry had received since the outbreak the case, and involving cases of suspicious deaths in the units where nurses worked.
Justice will now have to determine whether to accept these allegations and if it starts its own research on them.
As reported by the MSP, the approach in the analysis of complaints was to analyze first those occurred in the Centre of Neuro surgical treatment of the hospital of the Spanish Association and unit coronary care of the Maciel Hospital, where murders he confessed to nurses occurred.
Of all of these, considered those whose “causes of death have not been clear or suspicious depending on your medical 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 it was revealed that 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 to the nurse Andrea Acosta “complicity”.
These events triggered a wave of allegations and suspicions about the practices of the nurses who arrived by hundreds both health authorities such as the police, 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.
