The Prevent Senior Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) at the São Paulo City Council approved today (4) the final report that calls for the indictment of 20 people for crimes committed in the health operator’s hospitals during the pandemic of the new coronavirus. After this approval by the councilors, the report will be forwarded to the Public Ministry.
Among those nominated for indictment are the brothers Fernando Parrillo and Eduardo Parrillo, partners-owners of Prevent Senior. Fernando was accused of the crime of failure to provide assistance: according to the CPI, as the owner of the company, he would have denied more adequate medical care to the patient with covid-19.
In relation to Eduardo, there is the same accusation of failure to provide assistance, in addition to crimes of danger to the life or health of others and crime against humanity, as he would have promoted research on human beings without approval and disregarding legal norms.
In addition to the owners, the councilors asked for the indictment of company directors and doctors. The 50-page report points out 52 crimes related to the company’s actions during the covid-19 pandemic. The requests for indictments are mainly related to crimes of danger to the life or health of others, failure to provide assistance, crime against humanity and misrepresentation.
The CPI’s final report also proposes inspection and investigative actions by the city hall, the Public Ministry, the National Research Ethics Commission (Conep), the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of São Paulo (Cremesp) and the National Health Agency. Supplement (ANS) on the fiscal, labor and operational situation of the company.
In a statement, the company contested the report and the suggestions for indictments, but reaffirmed “to have full interest in technical investigations, without political contours, to restore the truth of the facts”. The company also said that it will continue “working to provide excellent service to more than 550,000 beneficiaries”.
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The Prevent Senior CPI was created in September 2021 to investigate complaints of underreporting of the number of cases of contaminated people and deaths from covid-19 by the health operator. One of the suspicions is that, to reduce the number of records, Prevent Senior would have acted so that patients with covid-19 did not have the disease noted in their medical records.
In cases of death, the information would also not appear on the death certificates. The CPI also investigated complaints of indiscriminate and experimental use of the covid kit, a set of drugs known to be ineffective against covid-19. The CPI also investigated carrying out research without authorization from patients or competent bodies.
