Montevideo, 10 APR ( EFE).-Spanish doctors cooperate with Uruguay in the improvement and development of a programme of care for patients needing palliative care after them, at least 15 killings of inmates committed by two nurses in intensive care units, said medical sources.
As today, he told Efe the President of the Trade Union doctor of the Uruguay (SMU) MartÃn Rebella, the case of nurses revealed the need to regulate and improve palliative care in the country and we said, we need to create a national programme to deal with the issue.
To this end, shall be calculated with the help of the Spanish expert Marcos Gomez Sancho, head of the unit of palliative medicine from the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain).
“The case of nurses and psychosis that was then generated on palliative care showed that in Uruguay there are still having problems in patients critics or assistance in end of life, and that is why we should work to improve”, indicated Rebella.
The idea is that Sancho Gomez visit Uruguay in the month of May to attend to generate a general program of palliative care and work with local doctors to generate a Protocol and develop activities to enhance information on the subject in society.
“We can improve the patient care, and that is a response of doctors to responsibility for these murders.” “That served as a catalyst to promote improvement in the relationship doctor patient and society expected answers to have confidence in the system,” said Rebella.
The past 19 March 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 your 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”.
These events triggered a wave of allegations and suspicions about the practices of the nurses who arrived by hundreds both health authorities and the police and that sowed mistrust in the Uruguayan health as a whole.
Rebella also reported that another of the consequences of this “Psycho” has been that now doctors are refusing to sign records of death continued doubts about the cause of death, despite the legal obligation to do so.
In this regard, the SMU is also working to revise procedures and clarification as to when a doctor has to certify a death and when not.
