Officials denounce death of patients due to the cold in Sao Paulo, Brazil Valley Psychiatric Hospital of hydrangeas in Sorocaba, denies fault. Accordi

HOSPITAL PSIQUIÁTRICO VALE DAS HORTÊNCIAS

Officials from the Valley of the psychiatric hospital hydrangeas in the region of Sorocaba (SP), denounced the killing of patients by the cold inside the unit. According to the complaint, sent on Thursday (7) of the Anti-Asylum Forum Sorocaba (Flames), the three patients who died on June 14, two may have been victims of hypothermia due to exposure to excessive cold .

The third patient was the one who was in critical condition. According to the complaint, there were no doctors in the hospital that day. Death certificates tell you how causes of death respiratory failure and pulmonary edema.

Images recorded inside the hospital patients show barefoot, bare-chested or completely naked. An old man naked picture appears in a shrinking cold. Officials said the doctors did not pass in three wards reserved for patients with critical cases of dementia. The hospital is private, but it has 475 beds for patients of the Unified Health System (SUS).

The Valley of hydrangeas is one of seven area hospitals under investigation by prosecutors and the National Secretariat of Human Rights by the excessive number of deaths. According to a survey of the Flames, 459 patients died in four years on these units. In the Valley of hydrangeas, it said, of the 77 deaths recorded between 2006 and 2009 at least 35 had pneumonia as the sole or one of the causes.

The State Health Department said it would make a technical inspection at the hospital. The direction of the Valley of hydrangeas said the three deaths the same day were coincidental and that the overall number of deaths within the acceptable levels. According to the hospital, all patients are properly clothed, but those in most critical state often take off their clothes. The replacement is immediate, according to the hospital, denied that the lack of doctors.

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