MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguayan justice indicted Sunday at three nurses for the murder of a few hundred patients in two hospitals in Montevideo, one public and another private.
Two nurses were prosecuted for homicide and a nurse for cover-up, according to Uruguayan press.
Justice and the police suspect that the reason for the murders would have been patients demanded attention. Mostly, the sick were not terminals.
The defendants said that they acted separately in the past two years and that is they did not know, while both worked at the same public institution.
One of them confessed to have killed about 50 patients, while the other said before the judge who had lost count of the deaths caused, according to local media.
