Montevideo, 18 mar ( EFE).-the Government of Uruguay today showed his regret and surprise by the death of sixteen patients in intensive care units of two hospitals in Montevideo at the hands of two nurses who argued having committed the crimes “mercy” toward their victims.
In a press conference together, the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo Bonomi, and health, Jorge Venegas, expressed the position of the Executive before the judge leading the case, Rolando Giordano, announced the processing of two nurses especially aggravated homicide and a colleague for complicity
Bonomi termed the event “very painful”, while Venegas conveyed his “shock” by what happened.
According Bonomi research started from “of an anonymous complaint” that “came from the own environment of health”, conducted on January 2.
The Minister of the Interior explained that “can not specify the time when” the nurses were “acting in this way” and he clarified that “it is not of facts that have been clearly coordinated”.
“Not knew each other people, then everyone did what was by his side”, said.
Later pointed out that “it is not clear that they act together, yes that they know what they did”.
In addition, explained that not all killed patients were terminally ill patients.
Meanwhile Venegas called differentiate between “medical error” and “criminality”, and reported that the Ministry of health has an internal monitoring system to ensure that patients are properly treated, approved by the World Health Organization.
Nurses processing, 49 and 36 years, and with a long professional career, committed the crimes in the unit cardiac Hospital Maciel, the State, and the first Spanish Association of mutual aid intensive care unit, mutual of private capital.
As judge Giordano, two nurses, arrested this weekend, admitted in his statement “that many people had provided medication that they suffered”.
During the day of interrogation, which lasted for eleven hours, police sources warned that the number of victims could reach sixty, while other versions came to target two hundred.
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.
Santiago Clavijo, lawyer of the nurse of 36 years and also processed women, both employees of the first Spanish Association of mutual aid, and Agnes Massiotti, defender of the nurse in 49 years who worked in Hospital Maciel, said that the crimes committed by their clients “by motives of piety”.
Bonomi explained that the case “is not easy” and “expected an investigation that lasts quite a long time”.
Admitted that you don’t still have the names of the victims and said it expects to meet them when you receive the minutes of judge Molero.
Once are in his possession, it will be in contact with the family, something that could happen in the coming weeks.
Consulted on possible complaints against the authorities of health, Venegas said his Ministry is working on “create device” to “channel the questions and answers that must be given to the families”. EFE
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