2023-04-17 17:17:21
The investigating prosecutor Raúl Garzón ordered the preventive detention of the former director of the Neonatal, Liliana Asis. The 74-year-old infectologist was already detained in the Bouwer prison. Her lawyers requested house arrest, but the request was ruled out by the prosecutor investigating the cause of the death of babies in 2022 at that provincial health center.
Garzón charged the former director with three charges: cover-up aggravated by her status as a public official, omission of duties of a public official and ideological falsehood. The latter, for having falsified death certificates.
Preventive detention for aggravated concealment was ruled for concealment and destruction of evidence for 11 facts: the five deaths and most of the cases where there were attempts or attacks but the death was not finally consummated.
Asis has been detained since February and has already testified twice. The first time, she gave an account with details about the deaths that were registered in the hospital between March and June, and what was done in the health center until the fact was made public in August 2022 and she was displaced from the hospital. driving. She incriminated Brenda Agüero, the detained nurse, accused of five homicides of newborns and eight attacks classified as attempted homicides, also of Neonatal babies.
On the second opportunity, he acknowledged that he had talks with the former provincial Health Minister, Diego Cardozo, to review case by case.
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