The justice of Cordoba opened an investigation to determine the causes of the death of twins at the Ramón Carrillo Maternal Neonatal Hospital in the local capital, the same provincial public establishment where five healthy babies died a few hours after birth, according to the Ministry of Health.
The twins were born on October 26 last and one of them had died within a few hours, while the death of the other baby occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Health portfolio, through Twitter, reported that having learned of the summary proceedings the corresponding areas were instructed to initiate an administrative investigation, as well as to provide the Prosecutor’s Office with all the information required for the purposes of the investigation.
It also details that “both deaths were duly notified and that the analysis of the root cause of both deaths is underway, as established by resolution 1,375″.
It adds that in the framework of file 11,428,642, labeled as “Death of doubtful etiology”the investigation is in charge of the District Attorney for District 4, Shift 6, Jorgelina Gutiez, who “is provided with information on what has been done so far.”
On the other hand, prosecutor Raúl Garzón is carrying out another investigation, which began in August of this year, on the “suspicious deaths” of five babies that occurred between March and June of this year in that same maternal and neonatal hospital and which, so far, has five defendants.
Among the defendants is nurse Brenda Agüero (27), the only detainee and with an accusation directly linked to the deaths, since she is accused of being the alleged perpetrator of “aggravated qualified homicide by insidious procedure” in five cases, and in the degree of attempt on eight other babies who survived these alleged maneuvers.
Agüero is accused of allegedly author of “injecting substances incompatible with life” into newborns, such as potassium and other components that are yet to be established, since the deaths occurred in babies who were born healthy.
Within the framework of file 11428642, labeled “Death of doubtful etiology”, which is being investigated by the District Prosecutor’s Office 4, turn 6 of the city of Córdoba, the Ministry of Health provides information on what has been done so far.
— Ministry of Health of Córdoba (@minsaludcba) November 16, 2022
The nurse on Tuesday he separated from his defender, the lawyer Luis Obregónand it is expected that he will resolve his new legal representation to be investigated for the accusatory expansion.
The remaining defendants are the former Minister of Health, Diego Cardozo; the former secretary of health, Pablo Carvajal and the former deputy director of the hospital, Alejandro Salama, in all cases for the crime of ‘omission of the duties of a public official’.
The remaining investigated are the former director, Liliana Asís; to the former head of neonatal areas, Marta Gómez Flores and Adriana Morales, for the crimes of “omission of the duties of a public official and ideological falsehood.”
Staff of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) exhumed remains of three babies, for the purpose of submitting them to scientific studies to try to determine the identity and cause of their deaths.
