Month: March 2012

Montevideo, 26 mar (EFE).-the main political and the Uruguayan authorities of public and private health institutions pledged today to work together to restore confidence to a very damaged system in the case of nurses who killed at least 15 of their patients. In a meeting convened by the National Board of health (Junasa), all actors of the health of the country considered imperative to strengthen public trust in all the institutions and pledged to make “maximum efforts to rehabilitate and strengthen” the same “as a superior in health care value”. The meeting was chaired by the Minister of health, Jorge Venegas, who called for a “speedy recovery” of belief in the health system and pointed by this work will require the joint effort of the Ministry of public health, both public effectors, private, workers and users. Precisely this meeting was intended to work already at this point looking for informed officially about the murders committed by the two nurses working in hospitals Maciel and the Spanish Association and on the measures taken in this regard. In a joint communiqué issued after the meeting, all stakeholders highlighted that “the painful episode” the nurses had to do only with “people who decided and acted” violating the law and the most elementary sense of humanity. “One of the most important factors for the operation of the complex process of the health care,...