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And while the CEO should be congratulated for his plain-spoken-ness about the “unacceptableâ€￾ level of care - there’s nothing to celebrate here, a young life has been needlessly lost - and no amount of candor after-the-fact can bring little Dion back.  

So, who’s going to be held accountable for it?  Well, the CEO also admitted that the regional manager has been slow to act decisively in a clear cut case.  He said the nurse in question is before the nurse’s council:

Dr. Ramon Figueroa - CEO, Ministry of Health
"One of the individuals is being taken to one of the nursing councils. They presented the case to one of the nursing council for action. Locally we can also take action. Just yesterday we were discussing with the region that we expected that individual to be put on administrative leave.  Why it hasn’t happened, I’m not sure."

Reporter
"The reason why that persons didn’t go on administrative leave, is this a lapse in some process or procedure that was supposed to have happened on the end of the Ministry?â€￾

Dr. Ramon Figueroa
"That was a local decision that should have already been made. That was expected to have already been done already.  We asked for a justification of why that wasn’t done. I am still waiting for that response."

The nurse in question is scheduled to come off personal leave tomorrow - so we’ll see if she is then placed on administrative leave.  

The regional manager Maria Monima is known to be a political favorite of the Health Minister, Pablo Marin.