The Minister of National Defense said on Tuesday that she expects conclusions of the investigation process of the case of the hospitalized soldiers of the 138 Commando course within one or two weeks, arguing that the investigations must be “precise and rigorous.”
I know it will be brief, I hope that in the next week, two weeks, I can already have some results of this urgent investigation that the Army has determined, as well as the technical inspection of the course itself that will allow us to evaluate the circumstances in which this case took place. ”, advanced Helena Carreiras.
Helena Carreiras spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the presentation of the National Defense Sector Plan for Equality 2022-2025, which was presented this Tuesday at the Cordoaria Nacional, in Lisbon.
The official recalled that there are ongoing investigations that “must be precise and rigorous.”
“The most important thing, and my concern at this time, is to monitor the health status of the soldier, whom I have already visited, and that he recover soon so that we can look at the situation and, as verified, accurately and rigorously, without rainfall, but quickly, to be able to act if this is the case,” he stressed.
This Monday, the Army reported that the Army soldier from command course 138 who underwent a transplant was transferred from the intensive care unit to the transplant service of the Curry Cabral Hospital in Lisbon.
The hospitalized Army soldier was transferred from the Intensive Care Unit to the Transplant Service of the Curry Cabral Hospital, as a result of his stabilized clinical situation, continuing to show a progressive improvement in his state of health,” the Headquarters reported in a statement. of the General Staff of the Army.
The Army General Staff ordered the interruption of command course 138 until the investigation process of that training is determined.
The Army awaits the conclusions of the investigation process, “which should be determined shortly”, to assess the need for adjustments, after the recent incidents with hospitalized soldiers.
The branch indicated a total of six interventions in a hospital in the field of course 138: to the soldier who is hospitalized, to a second soldier who suffered a respiratory interruption and was discharged last week, and still to four soldiers in the Hospital das Forças Armadas, at the Lisbon hub, “as a result of the health checkup carried out on all trainees, on September 8”.
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” than what happened six years ago.when two young men died in an exercise.
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 December 4, 2016 September .
Source: Observadora
