"A Brazilian doctor who was charged with killing seven patients to free up beds
at a hospital intensive care unit may have been responsible for as many as 300
deaths, according to a Health Ministry investigator.
...Prosecutors said Dr Virginia Soares de Souza and her medical team administered
muscle relaxing drugs to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing
them to die of asphyxia at the Universitary Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of
Curitiba....
De Souza, a 56-year-old widow, was arrested last month and charged with seven
counts of aggravated first degree murder. Three other doctors, three nurses and
a physiotherapist who worked under De Souza have also been charged with murder.
...More cases are expected to emerge as investigators come through 1,700 medical
records of patients who died in the last seven years at the hospital, where De
Souza headed the intensive care unit.
...Parana state prosecutors asked police on Wednesday to investigate whether more
hospital employees, including former managers, were involved in the case. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/9958658/Brazilian-doctor-killed-up-to-300-to-free-up-beds-in-intensive-care.html
"Pouco antes das 10 horas, telefonou para a Ouvidoria Geral do Estado do Paraná. Durante 30 minutos, a fisioterapeuta contou à atendente o que vinha lhe tirando o sono havia meses. Com a voz ofegante e embargada, narrou o que se passava no lugar onde trabalhava, a Unidade de Terapia Intensiva do Hospital Universitário Evangélico, o maior e mais antigo de Curitiba.
Era uma denúncia sinistra: a equipe médica da UTI acelerava a morte de
doentes em estado grave. Manipulava padrões de oxigênio de aparelhos respiratórios e ministrava aos doentes um coquetel de sedativos e bloqueadores neuromusculares...doutora Virgínia Helena Soares de Souza, diretora da Unidade há sete anos. A doutora Virgínia decidia quem deveria viver ou morrer na UTI."
Translation
"Shortly before 10 am, phoned the Police of the State of Paraná. For 30 minutes, the therapist told the attendant what was taking her sleep for months. Her voice choked and gasped, narrated what was happening in the place where she worked, the Intensive Care Unit of the Universitary Evangelical Hospital, the oldest and largest of Curitiba.
The complaint was grim: the medical ICU was accelerating the death of seriously ill. Manipulated patterns oxygen breathing of equipment's and ministered to patients a cocktail of sedatives and neuromuscular blockers ... Dr. Virginia Helena Soares de Souza, director of the Unit for seven years. was the one deciding who should live or die in the ICU. "
http://beneviani.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/os-feitos-da-medica-virginia-soares-de_7.html
