Cohn case: three of the six doctors convicted in the trial

The Correctional Court No. 4 of San Isidro convicted only three of the six doctors accused of the death of Alejandro Cohn that occurred on July 29, 2015 at the Melchor Posse Hospital.Marcelo Solano, doctor of the ambulance, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison in addition to seven years of disqualification for culpable homicide. Ana María Sánchez to one year and eight months in prison and 5 years of disqualification. With respect to Carla Setti, the judge sentenced her to one year and eight months in prison, while there will be 5 years of disqualification, both also for the same crime. In this way, only Solano obtained effective imprisonment, but he will only go to jail when the conviction is final. While the other two doctors will remain free since the sentences are releaseable.” The first reading I have to make is that what I denounced was proven, which is that my brother was killed in the guardhouse,” said the filmmaker and brother of the victim, Mariano Cohn.Although he said that he is not satisfied with the acquittals, he maintained: “There are three doctors convicted, one with an effective prison sentence and two more doctors from the guard who first treated my brother and did not treat him as a diabetic patient.” Justice in Argentina is going down a different path than that of reason and truth,” said Cohn.The filmmaker also pointed out that it is an important step since “as of today there are three doctors who are no longer going to practice medicine and one who is going to prison. It is a first step, a first instance, but it does not end here. We are going to ask that a case be opened for cover-up by the authorities of the municipality and the hospital,” he said. In addition, he insisted that it was possible to demonstrate “the chaos that was the hospital” and that now the acquitted doctors will have to “put on a mask to attend to the patients.” In 2015, Alejandro Cohn left his house on a motorcycle to go play soccer until he began to feel ill. He was diabetic, insulin-dependent and perceived a drop in sugar in his body. He was assisted by three people on the street and accompanied by ambulance to the San Isidro Hospital.What happened to Alejandro Cohn between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. is the reason for this trial, since he had unexplained fractures and a diagnosis of brain death.

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