03/30/2021 9:36 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/30/2021 9:46 AM
A nurse who works in the Unit of Prompt Attention number 5 (UPA), in
Longchamps
, denounced that she was
handcuffed by an officer of the Buenos Aires Police
for refusing to carry out a blood extraction to a detainee because she had to attend an emergency.
The episode occurred on Sunday and was recorded by the cell phone of another nurse and by the security cameras of the place.
The video went viral and the woman made an
official complaint
in Burzaco.
"It was 1:35 pm, at 2:00 pm the guard had finished. Sergeant Pérez had already arrived, who comes with a prisoner in handcuffs and
asks for blood to be drawn now
. My colleague said no because we are not really extractionists and legally we cannot carry out extractions. "said Claudia, the nurse, in dialogue with
TN
.
After the refusal of his partner to carry out the extraction, the police reacted with
insults
, according to the testimony of Claudia, who appeared on the scene there.
"When I pass he tells me
'I give you the order to
draw blood from
me'
. I told him that we cannot draw blood and that I had to see a patient with chest pain that I had to assess, it was an emergency. He said
'no You are taking me out because the prosecution orders it, '
"he continued in his story.
And he finished: "I told him that I have the stamp expired due to the issue of the pandemic, that everything is in process and that I cannot stamp it and he was going to attend to me.
'Ah, no, I am taking this prisoner'
, I hear that He says".
Finally Claudia was able to go see her patient, who had severe chest pain.
But when he finished seeing him, his nightmare began: "The patient comes out ahead and I see something blue hidden on the edge of the frame and when I go out I feel like 20 people grabbed me, I struggle and as far as I remember we got to where the video is, which is like 20 meters beyond. "
Claudia, the nurse in handcuffs for refusing to draw blood from a detainee in the middle of another emergency.
TV capture.
According to the nurse herself, the officer handcuffed her when she left the office and told her that she was going to take her to jail.
He also reported that the police "asked for a female reinforcement because the male who was with him" could not touch her and as she was handcuffed with one hand, he could not carry her alone.
To all this, Claudia said that "
the detainee was sitting loose
, next to the man with the chest pain."
According to what the health worker could see in the footage of the scene, Sergeant Pérez
"took off the prisoner's handcuffs
,
"
identified as Francisco Corvalán, to put them on her.
Faced with the dissemination of the images, the Police defended their actions by ensuring that the professional had received them "aggressively and they would have pounced on the effective one."
In addition, they assured that the woman had refused to carry out the indicated blood and urine tests because she demanded that the security force provide her with the necessary material for the tasks.
The nurse made a complaint for abuse of authority and, according to what she told in a dialogue with TN, she knows that Sergeant Pérez
"was already dismissed from the force"
, after Commissioner Gallo, from the Burzaco headquarters, intervened.
The UFI 4 of Lomas de Zamora intervenes in the case.
"The policeman who came later, when he saw the situation, all he did was take my data and ask me for the cell phone video. Right there he passed it on to the Burzaco commissioner, who went directly to listen to the police version," he remarked .
In the video, which circulated in the last hours on social networks, the moment of greatest tension is seen, in which Claudia asks to be released to go back to work.
"I was shocked, I did not know what was happening. The patient was sitting next to the prisoner, who
did not leave because he did not want to,
" said the victim, while saying that she suffered a rise in pressure due to the situation she experienced.
"We are prepared for very rough emergencies, with aggressive alcoholic and drugged patients. We are used
to that
,
but not this
," he closed.
DD
Look also
He stabbed him in the neck because he denounced him as a thief: "Tyson cut me, cut me treacherously"
Mar del Plata: a 19-year-old young man died after a confusing episode at the exit of a bowling alley
