RULING OF “ANGELS” CASE
According to conclusions drawn from the case of the nurses, the chief of cardiology of the Maciel hospital reported, in March 2011, his surprise at the increase in mortality at his unit in 2011. A report was carried out where “there was no concluding or irrefutable cause of the deaths”.
According to the chief, since the creation of his unit mortality had always been 3 or 4% per year, but in 2011 there was a big increase. He added that the study of medical records shows the following. 1) It was a group of seriously ill patients but within the habitual population of the coronary Unit, with good response to the specific treatments that were provided. 2) The deaths had a common denominator, however the report concluded that there “was no concluding or irrefutable cause of the deaths”.
In 2011 the rate went up to 10% according to Patritti, which is why the Unit police started an thorough analysis of the causes behind this increase.
The people who had passed away “even thought they were critical, we were not expecting such a sudden ending. Thhis group of patients were not different from the average entries: the death rate had no reason for increasing in such a manner” said the doctor.
Nurse suspicions
The ruling also gathers witness statements from various nurses who suspected of other nurses. One of the nurses from Maciel started to have doubts about M.P due to comments he had made, saying that in his other job at La Española certain patients were killed. The increase in deaths in the Coronary Unit motivated a series of rumors in the Maciel Hospital and suspicions of MP since “the same situation happens in which from intermediate care there many patients ended up in the ICU or dead, and it’s always when he’s alone with the patient and then it’s actually him who alerts about the situation”
Another nurse who also Works in the Cardiology Unit also confirmed the “rise in death rates” adding that there were “deaths of patients who had respiratory failure, and it also happened to patients who had already been given permission to return home”:
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