Trial for the death of babies in Córdoba: the statement of another mother further complicates Brenda Agüero

Trial for the death of babies in Córdoba: the statement of another mother further complicates Brenda Agüero

The accusations against nurses and authorities of the health center start from potassium and insulin supply which led to the death of the babies in mid-2022. The cause has 11 accusedof which the main accused is the nurse Brenda Aguero.

Julieta Guardia’s statement

In this case, Ibrahim’s mother accused nurse Brenda Agüero by saying that she “trusted” her and who sensed that “something was not right” with her baby minutes after delivery.

Guardia recounted before the popular jury and the court the moment she gave birth to her son. “They take me to the pre-delivery room. Doctors receive me. “I don’t remember their names, but I remember their faces and hers (looks at Agüero) because she was in the pre-delivery room, the delivery room and the recovery room.”he recalled.

Although he assured that no words were exchanged, he does remember seeing Agüero. “I trusted her, I didn’t know what was happening,” he said.

Regarding her feelings after giving birth, she indicated: “It was after 8 p.m., I decided to leave my son in the crib. He fell asleep. I took the opportunity to take a shower and at that moment I said ‘something is not right’, I felt it in my heart. “I feel a tense and cold atmosphere.”

“I could see my son because he was in front of the shower. I thought my son was asleep, but when I came out of the shower and went to my son’s crib and I saw that Ibrahim wasn’t even moving. When I turned him around he was already dead. life. My son was already dead. It was five minutes and my son died. “I had purple lips,” he recalled.

Guardia couldn’t hold back her tears as she remembered what happened minutes after her baby was born.

Finally, Ibrahim’s mother spoke about how she continued with her life afterwards. “I need psychological and psychiatric help. I tried to kill myself three times because I couldn’t find a way out. I don’t understand by what right or why they did it. I know there is no answer, but it is a pain that is difficult for me to say I can survive with this burden,” he concluded.

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Brenda Agüero is the main defendant for the murder of five babies and the attempted murder of eight others.

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Death of babies in the Neonatal of Córdoba: the details of the case

The case was uncovered by the complaint of an engineer who was part of the hospital staff. The man took foreknowledge by “strange deaths” that caught his attention and he decided to go to court.

Since then, An internal investigation was carried out and raids began to be carried out and comparison of medical records to find a common point, since the authorities noticed that it was not something isolated.

According to the stories of the victims’ fathers and mothers, they were healthy babies and that the doctors’ answer was that he had had a heart failure. At that time, the court made a list of all the people who were involved in the care in the different cases. Given this, the name of Brenda Agüero was presented as a common factor in each death.

In the autopsies of two of the victims it was recorded that They showed high levels of potassium that led to their death. One of the main hypotheses that the authorities are using is that Agüero was acting in the recovery room alone and while she was lifting them, she injected them with this mineral.

The woman has been in preventive detention since that moment and continues to be detained in Bouwer prison. It was also revealed that the woman had googled how to dose potassium and insulinIn addition, he had read about resuscitation techniques in minors, substances that cause cardiac arrest, and a text about what to do in cases of grief due to death. The babies’ mothers claimed that he showed a rare interest in the newborns barely decompensated and she was the first to notice what had happened.

The trial, in addition to Agüero, is against the former Minister of Health of Córdoba, Diego Cardozo; the former director of the Neonatal Hospital, Liliana Asís; the former vice director of the Neonatal Hospital, Claudia Ringelheim; the former vice director of Hospital Management of the Maternal Neonatal Hospital, Alejandro Escudero Salama; the former head of Neonatal Nursing, Blanca Alicia Ariza; the former Secretary of Health, Pablo Caravajal; the lawyer and former Legal Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Alejandro Gauto; the Neonatal doctor, Adriana Morales; the neonatologist María Alejandra Luján and the former head of Neonatal Neonatology, Marta Gómez.

Source: Ambito

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