01/13/2021 9:21 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/13/2021 9:36 AM
The doctor who prescribed chlorine dioxide to a patient with coronavirus who later died at the Otamendi Sanatorium was charged in a criminal case after the complaint made by the Ministry of Health.
The Justice ordered the search of his office and evidence was found there, according to sources in the case.
The investigation was in charge of federal judge Sebastián Casanello, who is on duty during the first fortnight of the judicial fair in January, who last night ordered the search of Dante Coverti's office, which was "positive".
The investigation began with the complaint presented to the Police "as a preventive act", and the objective of the procedure carried out was "to preserve the evidence" that was transferred to the court based in Comodoro Py 2002 and now "will be analyzed."
This complaint is linked to the alleged
prescription of an unauthorized drug
to the patient Oscar García Rúa and that would be "harmful" to health, a type of crime that is being investigated in federal justice.
ANMAT issued another warning for chlorine dioxide.
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For this reason, the doctor is accused and is being investigated although a specific classification of the crime that could be attributed to it has not yet been formulated, the sources said.
The health professional recommended the use of this chemical, but in the Otamendi Sanatorium they refused to carry out the treatment and it
was a judge who issued an injunction and ordered its application
.
The ruling forced Otamendi to give him intravenous chlorine dioxide and sodium ibuprofenate in nebulisations.
Neither of the two treatments received authorization from the National Administration of Medicines and Medical Technology (ANMAT).
The surrogate federal judge Javier Pico Terrero, of the Federal Civil and Commercial Court No. 7, in his controversial measure,
protected a request from the patient's family
, who was desperate to find a treatment that saves his life.
During the raid that began shortly after 9 p.m. and ended at 11 p.m., the Police seized medical records and prescriptions for chlorine dioxide, among other evidence found in the neurosurgeon's office located at Ayacucho 626, in the city of Buenos Aires.
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