The Justice summoned a group of doctors and nurses from the Institute of Mental health Buenos Aires (SOMA SRL) following a complaint from abuse of a patient. The act was committed in September 2018 and, according to the woman’s statement, she was tied up for two days on a stretcher.
The episode It occurred on September 8, 2018 when, according to the statement of the patient who had been admitted, she was resting in the women’s sector and another patient (a man) slipped in there, who agreed after violating an access door, and practiced oral sex. In that context, the patient in question made the comment to others and it was the subject of conversation among several patients in the mental institution.
Meanwhile, according to the complaint, the doctor María Lorena Meza indicated a “four-point restraint” to the patient who denounced the abusefor which they tied her hands and feet for two days to a stretcher where she remained isolated.
“It was not evaluated by a doctor nor by a gynecologist, nor was he provided with the medication kit, which in these cases must be supplied in accordance with the protocol for the comprehensive care of victims of abuses sex of the Ministry of Health“, indicated in the accusation the prosecutor specialized in violence against women Mariela Labozzeta.
The answer of the doctors and nurses when the patient’s mother allegedly abused went to the Institute is that she “could be delirious”. In this way, “they omitted to carry out the procedures required by a correct practice doctor for the care of victims of sexual violence and good practices in the care of people with mental illnesses. This omission seriously endangered the Health and physical and mental integrity” of the patient.
Even before the complaint made by the patient to another doctorJuan José Zorrilla, a “reinforcement of mediation” and “subjection” was ordered for another two days, maintains the prosecutor’s indictment.
Now, the investigating court 6, subrogated by Martín Yadarola, decided to summon the doctors and nurses Roque Zorrilla, María Lorena Meza Brones, Roberto Rodríguez Argudo, Mónica Rosa Liliana Paladino, Raquel Fernández and Guillermo Gabriel López. All were summoned for February.
Regarding the patient accused of rape, who is currently admitted to the San Jorge Clinic, the judge ordered expert studies to find out if he understands the criminality of his acts or not.