The institution defends following careful security protocols that allowed the police to act quickly
Hospital Anchieta spoke out about the investigation involving three nursing technicians suspected of participating in the deaths of patients at the health unit, in Taguatinga, in the Federal District.
In a statement, the institution stated that the case resulted from “painful, intentional and isolated” conduct, unrelated to the hospital’s care protocols or the actions of other health professionals. The management declared that the hospital is also a victim of the episode.
According to the statement, the conduct was “carried out in disregard of the hospital, the values of medicine and health care”. The defense of those investigated in the case was not located.
According to delegate Wisllei Salomão, responsible for the case, investigations indicate that the three former nursing technicians administered an inappropriate medication to the victims, which would have caused cardiac arrests and deaths.
According to Salomão, one of the technicians had taken advantage of an open system, logged in on behalf of doctors to prescribe the wrong medication on at least two occasions, pick it up at the pharmacy, prepare it, hide the syringe in the coat and apply it to three patients.
Images from security cameras installed in the ICU recorded the moment in which the main suspect carried out the lethal injections.
The institution defends following careful security protocols that allowed the police to act quickly, “preventing the continuation of a cycle that could have caused even greater damage” even though the suspects had “concealed conduct, circumvented controls and consciously violated existing security barriers”.
“It is even noted that one of the deaths did not even involve the administration of medication, but the use of a hygiene product, reinforcing the intentional nature and outside the hospital routine”, recalls the statement.
After an internal committee identified “atypical circumstances” in the deaths that occurred in the ICU, the employees were fired from the hospital and the police were called in to handle the case.
According to the Civil Police, the technician accused of applying the lethal substances is 24 years old, is a physiotherapy student and, after being fired from Anchieta, continued working in a children’s ICU. The two arrested technicians are 28 and 22 years old; one of them had already worked in other hospitals, while the other was in her first job in the area.
The three investigated are temporarily detained for 30 days.
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