“If they have any trace of humanity left, let them speak
. ”
Forcefully, the film director
Mariano Cohn
declared this Thursday in the trial that eight doctors from the Melchor Posse municipal hospital in San Isidro are being followed for the death of his brother Alejandro, 35 years old.
In the second hearing of the trial, which began this week, the relatives of the victim testified, who entered that health center on July 27, 2015 with discomfort linked to his diabetic condition and died two days later at the Italian Hospital. with multiple injuries.
“Alejandro was a very active person, very talented,
he treated himself, he took care of himself
, he took care of himself with his meals. He was a very close person with whom I was in permanent contact, and he complied with everything I asked of him during the time he worked with me,” the director of “The Manager” began to describe his brother.
And in his statement, he was vehement and insistent with a request: that the professionals involved tell what happened. It is a mystery how Cohn, who entered the municipal hospital on
his own and lucid
, ended up with a botched tracheostomy, unexplained fractures and a diagnosis of brain death.
The autopsy determined that the body had a dislocation of the cervical vertebra with rupture of the bone marrow, dislocation of the thoracic vertebra, fracture of the right clavicle and fracture of the lateral arches.
As recorded in the investigation, the shock room report book was lost, the nursing sheets with the record for that Saturday were torn out of the minute book and there is no record of security cameras either.
The harsh story of Alejandro and Mariano Cohn's father
Mario Cohn, Alejandro's father, was very precise when he moved nine years ago and remembered the moment when the doctor in charge of the Italiano's intensive care
summoned them to give them the report
, after the family had managed to transfer him to that center. Buenos Aires health.
"The doctor shows us in and
receives us with a sad face that I already knew
... The therapy doctor was silent and with a lot of respect and, mainly, with a lot of humanity, he took us slowly. 'Did you know that Alejandro has fractures?' 'He asked us. We didn't know anything, they had never told us that. He also told us 'He has a fractured cervical, lumbar and clavicle.' He asked us: 'Didn't they tell you anything?' "They never told us anything. There was not much more to say to presume that the medical reports at the San Isidro hospital were watertight to cover up this," he explained.
And he continued: “There he tells us 'I have to tell you something else. Do you know that Alejandro has fluid on his brain?' We didn't know either. It was at that moment that he told us:
'Alejandro is brain dead
. '
“There is fact after fact, fact after fact of medical malpractice.”
“I wonder, how can a person live peacefully without noticing that another person has fluid on their brain? I'm not speaking as a lawyer, I'm speaking as a hurting dad.
"I would ask each person to put themselves in my place
," she said.
The director spoke to the defendants. “I would like to ask, here are my parents, who have waited a long time, like me, with great patience. Many of you will be fathers, brothers too. I want to ask that if there is any sign of humanity left in the doctors who did that to my brother, that they testify. Let them talk, so we save all this time, all this expenditure of energy, all this expenditure of money, and let them say
what happened in order to get to the truth
.”
And he insisted: “It is very important that they see me, that they listen, so that they see the damage they can cause to a person. It seems important to me that
they break the pact of silence
, that they speak, that they say what happened. If they have any trace of humanity left, let them speak.”
Cohn closed by anticipating that both he and his parents “we are going to go to the end with this, both for ourselves and for those who do not have the possibility of complaining.”
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