Guillermo Grieve stated that they are surprised

As a result of the raid on the San Martín Hospital pharmacy, the Minister of Health, Guillermo Grieve, and the head of the hospital, María Emilia Sattler, provided statements regarding the investigation that is in the initial stage for alleged irregular handling of medications. They announced that a summary will be initiated against the investigated employees and indicated that the situation took them by surprise.

“The hospital is operating normally and no patients are affected”Grieve clarified and added: “We believe that this It is something that has been coming for a long time and we will see how it could be done without all the elements we have to carry out the control not having detected it.“. In this context, the minister reported that an audit and an internal investigation will be carried out, as well as a summary.

For his part, Sattler indicated: “All the information is within the judicial investigation. For us, the development of the raid was truly a surprise. It is something that we were not aware of, so we do not have information other than what was publicly disseminated.. What we did was accompany legal advice in the procedure and sign the corresponding minutes that the judge had ordered.”. When asked about the control system within the pharmacy, she explained: “The hospital has a system, both for pharmacy registration and for articulation with the purchasing and administration sector”.

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“It is very difficult for something like this to happen”Grieve stressed, “remember that I was here for 38 years, it is very difficult because you have to fill out forms that establish the amount of medications that are going to be used, the amount that was received and that is delivered.. From all this the final purchase is determined. We thought that this has been going on for a long time and that it would have been a progressive situation, but we don’t know because we don’t have any information. It is not impossible, but it is very difficult with the controls that are carried out not only at the San Martín Hospital but throughout the province. We handle drugs permanently, 365 days a year and we must be very careful“.

The investigated workers will continue in the Hospital

On another note, the head of the hospital reported that an internal provision was issued to relocate the workers identified in the investigation to spaces that do not have access to or management of the pharmacy service. “What they informed us in the judicial procedure is that These people are free of action, so they must continue to go to work and our decision is to disengage them from these services, but they will continue to go to the hospital.“clarified Sattler and He commented that the workers investigated are people with a history of 20 and 10 years in the hospital..

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“This complaint does not arise internallyhence the dismay and surprise because this is something that here, from the hospital, has had the input that was needed and has carried out the usual purchasing procedure. They presented us with the search warrant with an investigative work that comes from the Directorate of Toxicology and Investigation that was presented for a matter of public interest of the possible crime of embezzlement to the prosecutor and carried out the search“he noted.

On the other hand, the minister announced that a circular will be issued, as a preventive measure, that will reach all hospitals to “the exhaustive control of the management of psychotropic drugs and the pharmacy that is in each of the hospitals. But in the face of this fact we are going to warn so that there is greater control“. Likewise, the hospital director indicated: “We have an institutional responsibility over all hospital employees, so we will not make subjective judgments about people and we will abide by what the Court dictates. In any case, we are surprised”.