A raid, several viral publications promoted by “influencers” and the intervention of the Public Ministry have entangled the situation that revolves around the singer Jesús “Chyno” Miranda, after the news spread that the artist was “in deplorable conditions » and had allegedly been a victim of mistreatment at the Doña Panchita rehabilitation center. Subsequently, four workers at the center were charged and detained, including two doctors accused of being “false psychiatrists”, despite the fact that there is official documentation that proves their credentials.
A thread that put together a roll. Prosecutor Tarek William Saab (appointed by the former Constituent Assembly) was part of the skein when he published through a thread on his Twitter account that due to a civil lawsuit, the singer Jesús “Chyno” Miranda had to be transferred from the Center of Tía Panchita Rehabilitation, located in the Alta Florida urbanization towards the El Cedral Clinic, because allegedly “he was on the premises under precarious conditions and was the victim of ill-treatment.”
After the raid, which occurred on Thursday, November 3, the representative of the Public Ministry reported that he had appointed the 30th and 46th national prosecutors, based on a request for transfer ordered by the 9th Civil Court of the Caracas Metropolitan Area.
A week later, on Thursday, November 10, Saab again notified through its Twitter account that two days earlier they had “apprehended doctors Lionel Sotillo, Victorio Domínguez” along with two employees who worked as auxiliary nurses: José Chacón and Danny Moreno. The alleged crime pointed out by the prosecutor was “illegally practicing medicine” and in a following tweet the four appear in a photograph that exposes their faces and qualifies the doctors as “false psychiatrists.”
1) Case of ChynoMiranda. After the performance of the Sanitary Hygiene Inspection at the Tía Panchita nursing home, ordered by the @MinpublicoVENthe apprehension of the false psychiatrists SOTILLO LIONEL, DOMINGUEZ VICTORIO together with CHACON JOSE and MORENO DANIES was achieved pic.twitter.com/Qs0uhTMoNG
— Tarek William Saab (@TarekWiliamSaab) November 9, 2022
The @MinpublicoVEN #will impute a 1) SOTILLO LIONEL 2) DOMINGUEZ VICTORIO 3) CHACON JOSE and 4) MORENO DANIES: who were #apprehended in the “tia Panchita” nursing home on 10-08-22: for illegally practicing medicine, affecting the health of the artist Jesús Chyno Miranda
— Tarek William Saab (@TarekWiliamSaab) November 11, 2022
Just minutes later, after this publication, three official documents backed by union institutions showed that The two doctors who were arrested and accused of illegal practice do have the credentials and legal requirements required to practice.
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First, it was the College of Physicians of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, an institution that issued a document containing the identity card and the registration number as physicians before the Ministry of Health. They are also full members, in the case of Dr. Domínguez since 2004 at the Colegio de Distrito Capital, and Dr. Sotillo at the Colegio del Estado Guárico.
Later, the Venezuelan Society of Psychiatry issued a statement signed by its board of directors ratifying and making public knowledge that both professionals are psychiatrists graduated from the postgraduate course at the Psychiatric Hospital of Caracasin 2001 in the case of Dr. Lionel Sotillo, and in 2003 in the case of Dr. Victorio Domínguez.
In addition to this official documentation issued publicly by the union institutions of medicine in which there are data, dates and verifiable credentials, the team of SuchWhich also had access to a document in which the culmination of the academic period between 1999 and 2001, in which Dr. Lionel Sotillo graduated from postgraduate studies in psychiatry, which coincides with the information specified by the Venezuelan Society of Psychiatry.
Nevertheless, four days after the arrest occurred, the doctors who were singled out and exposed in the midst of a series of posts on social networks have not yet been released and it is unknown if there are other charges for which they are charged, since so far the official information presented by the Saab prosecutor only refers to the illegal practice of medicine, which is certainly regulated according to article 22 of the Code of Medical Ethics as intrusiveness that is defined as «such as the incursion or interference in the development of the legally established medical professional exercise and it is also stipulated in article 114 of the Law of the Practice of Medicine, as the performance of activities of medicine by people without medical training and corresponding certifications, an accusation without legal basis that with a little investigation could have been corroborated with sufficient documentation available to the public, and in particular, by the prosecutor Tarek William Saab.
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