“I want the nine doctors who did that to my brother to be sentenced, to go to prison.”. I am making a criminal claim not a civil claim, I don’t want money from a poor state. The accused defend themselves in a hermetic, corporate manner, without declaring and in complicity with the political system.”
With these words, the film director and producer Mariano Cohnwas present with his family, the actor Luis Brandoni and the filmmaker Gastón Duprat, at the beginning of the oral trial that will try to reconstruct what happened at the end of July 2015 in the Central Municipal Hospital of San Isidro “Dr. Melchor Ángel Posse”, when Alejandro Cohn, his brother, a 35-year-old young man, entered the guard consciously due to low blood sugar and ended up, 48 hours later, with multiple fractures and brain death.
In statements to the press at the beginning of the debate, Cohn stated: “The diagnosis at the San Isidro hospital was very vague, very diffuse, and we found out about this whole event when we transferred him to the Italian Hospital. There, they told us that he had a brain injury. At that moment the Italian media made a complaint to the doctors at the San Isidro hospital for the theft of medical records, x-rays, and camera images.”
According to the film director, “there was a medical cover-up of everything that happened and also a political cover-up because the political system headed by Gustavo Posse, the mayor at that time, dedicated itself to covering up and hindering and not collaborating. In fact, doctors are still working to this day.”
“They didn’t know how to treat a diabetic, that he had to be hydrated, that he had to be given a serum, which would be something one expects from any doctor; Then the path begins where they do everything wrong and, once they do everything wrong, they try to disguise it as a traffic accident, something that is ruled out in the case. They wanted to draw a death and they beat him to death. My brother was 35 years old, a whole life ahead of him, he was going to play soccer. He entered the hospital healthy, he answered 15 questions out of 15, he said that he was diabetic, that is, everything is in plain sight,” he added.
For his part, Brandoni noted: “He accompanied Mariano because I know the case of his brother’s death and because it is the duty of a friend to accompany him in such a tragic situation.”
The process will be in charge of the judge Facundo Ocampohead of the Correctional Court No. 4 of San Isidro, and will have on the dock nine doctors of the municipal hospital accused of manslaughter crimes and violation of evidentiary elements. The prosecutor Diego Molina Picomeanwhile, will be in charge of carrying out the accusation in a debate that is estimated to last around a month.
According to the prosecutor’s criminal investigation Carolina AsprellaOn Saturday, July 27, 2015, after seven in the afternoon, Alejandro was traveling on his motorcycle to play a soccer game with friends. He suddenly felt a sugar drop and he began to feel bad: he suffered from diabetes and was insulin dependent. He parked on the sidewalk on Dardo Rocha Street, between Lima and Talcahuano, in Martínez. There he came into contact with a mother and daughter who came to assist him. They talked for a while and Alejandro explained what was happening to him.
After a while the ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital.Dr. Melchor Ángel Posse” from San Isidro, on 400 Santa Fe Avenue. Before, the young man was able to talk to his mother on the phone: “Mom, he told her, stay calm, I’m fine.”. He entered the guard on foot after eight twenty at night, where he lucidly answered fifteen questions pertaining to the medical protocol.
The parents entered the hospital minutes after nine at night. According to what they stated in the file, Alejandro was still waiting lying on a stretcher inside a box at the municipal hospital. Mario, the father, also related that his son, already decompensatedbegan to emit a snore very strong. There he looked for the doctors to ask them to treat him and was able to get them, two hours after admission, to take the patient to be treated in the hospital. shock room. Several hours passed. Relatives would later find him in intensive therapy with signs of hitsa tracheotomy and under a induced coma.
At that point in the chronology, uncertainties and a whole blanket of doubts begin, including the absence of security camerashe shock room report book lost and nursing sheets corresponding to that Saturday starts. After two days of hospitalization, where the family even received advice from two doctor friends who were able to come in to evaluate the health situation of Alejandro, the Cohns requested his urgent transfer to the Italian Hospital.
Marianofilmmaker recognized for works such as “The man next door”“The illustrious citizen and “The one in charge”, accompanied his five-year-younger brother in the ambulance. Upon arriving at the health center, they checked him exhaustively. The report was terrifying: Alexander had brain death and a set of broken bones. The autopsy would reveal that the body had a dislocation of the cervical vertebra with bone marrow rupturethoracic vertebra dislocation, clavicle fracture right and fracture of lateral arches.
On Monday, July 29, 2015, at 8 a.m., the decision was made to disconnect the 35-year-old. The technical cause of death turned out to be ““hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.”
So far, the nine doctors involved in the shifts of July 27 and 28 have remained silent. Is about Dario Campos, Martin Montagna, Maria Quiroga, Maximiliano Ragazzoli, Ana Sanchez, Maria Seijo, Carla Setti, Marcelo Toro Solano and Marina Vanesa Vogelin. The Cohn family, for its part, will be represented by the plaintiff Juan Carlos García Dietze. The trial has been taking place since this Tuesday in the large courtroom of the building located in Ituzaingó 340in the heart of San Isidro.
