The Defense Minister said on Tuesday she expects conclusions from the investigation process into the case of the hospitalized soldiers of the 138th Commando Course within a week or two, arguing that the investigations must be “accurate and rigorous”.
“I know it will be short, I hope that in the next week, two weeks, I can already have some results from this urgent investigation that the military has identified, as well as the technical inspection of the track itself that will allow us to to assess the circumstances under which this case took place”advanced Helena Carreiras.
Helena Carreiras spoke with journalists on the sidelines of the presentation of the National Defense Sector Plan for Equality 2022-2025, presented this Tuesday at Cordoaria Nacional, in Lisbon.
The official recalled that there are ongoing investigations that “need to be precise and rigorous”.
“The main thing, and my concern at the moment, is to check the health of the soldier, whom I have already visited, and that he recovers quickly so that we can review the situation and, depending on what has been verified, on a precise and rigorous way, without precipitation, but quickly, in order to be able to act if that is the case”he emphasized.
On Monday, the military reported that the 138th commando course soldier who was undergoing a transplant had been transferred from the intensive care unit to the transplant service at the Hospital de Curry Cabral, in Lisbon.
“The hospitalized army soldier was transferred from the Intensive Care Unit to the Transplantation Service of the Hospital de Curry Cabral, as a result of his stabilized clinical situation, and continued to show a gradual improvement in his state of health”the army chief of staff said in a statement.
The Army General Staff ordered the interruption of the 138th command course until that formation’s investigative process could be determined.
The military awaits the conclusions of the investigation process, “to be determined shortly”to assess the need for adjustments following recent incidents involving hospitalized military personnel.
The department indicated a total of six interventions at a hospital as part of the 138th course: to the soldier who is in the hospital, to a second soldier who had a respiratory failure and was discharged last week, and to four soldiers still in the hospital. Hospital das Forças Armadas, in the Lisbon hub, “as a result of the health assessment carried out on all trainees on 8 September”.
The president of the republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who has already visited the hospitalized soldier who underwent a liver transplant, said on September 11 that this case appears to be “a very different situation” from what happened six years ago. happened when two young men died in a drill.
Dylan da Silva and Hugo Abreu, then 20 years old, died and other trainees suffered serious injuries and had to be hospitalized during the “zero test” (first test of the Commando course), which took place in Alcochete, Setúbal, on Sept 2016.
Source: DN
