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| Newborn undergoing phototherapy to treat neonatal jaundice (credit: Wikipedia) |
Finally some action. The head of the Thessaloniki public prosecutors' department Evangelos Mademlis ordered the launch of a preliminary inquiry into the mysterious deaths of four infants at the city's "Papageorgiou" neonatal clinic. Public prosecutor Lambros Tsigas has been put in charge of the case and a misdemeanors justice ordered to investigate whether the deaths resulted from negligence and whether doctors and nursing staff at the hospital might be held liable. Four babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal clinic died last week, with their deaths initially attributed to an outbreak of the multiply-resistant hospital "super-bug" Klebsiella. More recent findings of the National Centre for Health Operations, however, found that two of the four infants died as a result of serious health problems and had not been infected with Klebsiella at all, while the other two had been infected but did not die as a result of their exposure. The neonatal clinic has since been thoroughly disinfected and is continuing to operate.
We seriously hope that justice will prevail in this case and that those responsible for this unspeakable crime be brought to trial. We want them exposed and we ant the innocent souls of those angels justified!
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