April 24, 2025 – 09:34
Instruction Prosecutor No. 9 of the Southern District, Jonathan Felsztyna, sent to the Instruction Prosecutor’s Office No. 6 the actions corresponding to the case for alleged mala praxisin which a medical professional of the San Juan Bautista Hospital. Prosecutor’s Office No. 6, by Facundo Barros Jorrat, has competence in the investigation of crimes against public administration.
The decision was taken after determining that the death of Nahuel Córdoba was not a direct consequence of the wounds suffered in the road accident in the southern part of the city.
By virtue of this, the investigation will be continued by the prosecutor of crimes against the Public Administration, who will concentrate the measures around the medical care provided during the hospitalization of the young man. Within the framework of the cause, various probative measures were already performed, such as the autopsy of the body, the kidnapping of the patient’s complete medical history and the taking of statements to health professionals and people linked to the medical care of the young man.
Among those measures, the declaration of the Forensic doctor was key, who concluded that death was not due to the injuries caused by the road accident.
Case
The mother of the deceased young man, Nahuel Córdoba, said that her son suffered a road accident on March 10 and that that day was transferred to that medical institution. There, he was admitted to the operating room for a toilette or surgical cleaning by a leg in his leg. “The doctor entered him from the middle of the leg to the foot and a wound does not heals like that,” said the woman and continued: “At 8 or 10 days he just takes away the plaster to cure him,” he said and said that from that moment he began to warn that the wound was not well and claimed attention.
The woman reported that the doctor entered the operating room again to make another “Toilette”. When the intervention ended, he continued – the doctor showed them a video to observe how his son’s leg was. “There was no going back,” he said and recalled that he was sent to intensive therapy for greater control.
Then, he said that during a visit to intensive therapy his son informed him that they should amputate his leg. “Má, they are going to amputate my leg, but I want to live. It’s the leg or my life; prosthesis there is a lot. Let’s firm,” he recalled.
He also accused bad treatment by some nurses who attended Nahuel.
