Syringe was key to clarify case of homicidal Uruguayan nurses
Montevideo, 19 mar ( EFE).-A syringe found near a patient dead a week ago was key to clarify the case of two nurses Uruguayans who were charged on Sunday for the murder of 16 patients placed in two centers health of Montevideo, police sources today indicated. Gladys Lemos, a diabetic woman aged 74, admitted to Hospital Maciel, dependent on the State, died suddenly on 12 March Monday shortly after receiving the medical discharge. Women was interned ten days due to various physical problems, but doctors were able to stabilize. However, after receiving the high, it descompensó and shortly afterwards died. The Uruguayan police, investigating some doubtful deaths in hospital, from January found a syringe next to women with remains of lidocaine which not he had been prescribed by doctors and was subsequently determined that the syringe came from another private health centre. Investigations resulted in the responsibility of a nurse, 39 years old, who worked in the hospital and also the first Spanish Association of mutual aid, where he stole the syringe. The police also arrested for the same cause another nurse in 46 years, who also worked in the private health centre, so the Criminal Court judge Rolando Vomero indicted them and ordered the income in prison of both accused of “especially aggravated homicide”. “For photographs one (accused) recognized five and another eleven victims and investigations will continue”,...
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