The facilities of this clinic are located at 13 between 69 and 70 / web
“Death from natural causes”, “homicide due to malpractice” and “violent death” are the three hypotheses that are being considered at this time around the death of a 16-year-old girl in a specialized mental health clinic, near Saavedra Park , where she had been hospitalized for several weeks.
“At the moment, until we have the corresponding medical information, nothing can be ruled out,” a judicial source told this newspaper yesterday, a few minutes after the information came to light.
According to police sources, until now there is only one version of how the events occurred.
It is the one that the Luminar Neuropsychiatric Clinic poured out yesterday afternoon to the researchers who appeared at its facilities located at 13 between 69 and 70 to attend to the case.
Based on what they pointed out from the health center, the teenager appeared dead in one of the rooms of the establishment.
They added in this regard that this macabre discovery was preceded by a violent episode that was extinguished with the use of drugs.
Always based on official information, after suffering a nervous breakdown, the adolescent was violent with the people around her and, in this context, health personnel had to administer painkillers.
That is why Justice is now also pointing to the possibility that it was a case of malpractice.
The report from the private institute explains that hours after receiving this drug, a member of the clinic staff came to the room to see how it was progressing and it was at that moment that he found the young woman collapsed on the floor with no vital signs.
There are still no details on whether resuscitation maneuvers were performed.
The concrete thing is that after the discovery, the institution called 911 to report the situation.
According to police sources, when they arrived at the place, two situations occurred that added more suspicion to the investigation.
On the one hand, members of the 9th police station had to wait more than half an hour for one of the doctors responsible for the patients to attend them.
After that period, an 80-year-old doctor who would be the director of the institute was the one who provided details on the case.
Meanwhile, the other circumstance that drew the attention of the investigators was that, before the arrival of the Scientific Police, the police authorities expressly requested that the corpse not be moved from the room and even ordered the door of the room to be locked. room in order to preserve the scene.
However, the clinic managers ordered the body to be located on the bed.
The case for “investigations of causes of death” was left in the hands of UFI prosecutor No. 6, Marcelo Romero, who ordered that an autopsy be carried out to determine if it was a natural death, a homicide due to malpractice or if the death is framed in a situation of violence.
“At the moment, none of these hypotheses have been ruled out. Tomorrow morning (for today) the autopsy operation will be carried out and we will have more information to reach a conclusion about the death of this girl,” prosecutor Marcelo Romero told this newspaper.
