What would Hippocrates think of the cardiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, pediatricians, and traumatologists who appear on the list below? These are doctors who still practice and who injected truth serum and the rabies virus into political prisoners during the dictatorship; others who are pursued by the justice system and who falsified reports to cover up DINA torture, and who even traveled outside the country to bring back those who had escaped the authoritarian regime of Pinochet.

You be the judge.

1. Darwin Arriagada. Physician. Leader of the Medical Association of Chile in 1973. He was appointed by the Military Junta as Director General of Health. He participated in the plan to administer drugs in food to murder political prisoners.

He turned in several of his colleagues on the left. Some were murdered. 2. Camilo Azar Saba. CNI physician. He was suspended for six months from the Medical Association for his participation in torture applied to prisoners in CNI barracks.

Implicated in the case of Federico Álvarez Santibáñez. 3. Guillermo Aranda. Physician from Punta Arenas, cardiologist. He applied his knowledge to the torture of prisoners in this city. 4. Alejandro Babaich Schmith.

Physician and director of the “Cirujano Guzmán” Hospital in Punta Arenas. Advisor on torture against political prisoners. 5. Gregorio Burgos. Physician of the Los Angeles Regiment. He advised DINA agents on how to find forms of torture that would not cause the detainee to lose consciousness. 6.

Víctor Carcuro Correa. CNI physician. This doctor had his rights suspended by the Medical Association for his participation in the torture that culminated in the death of the transporter Mario Fernández López, in La Serena, in October 1984. 7.

Raúl Díaz Doll. Physician and official of the General Directorate of the National Health Service. He was a member of the military commission that investigated the political affiliation of doctors. He organized the snitching system within the service and personally participated in the interrogations of detained and tortured doctors. 8.

Guido Mario Félix Díaz Paci. Army and CNI physician. A military health officer of the Army who participated in the events that culminated in the death of the transporter Mario Fernández López, in La Serena.

The cause of Fernández López’s death was the torture suffered in the CNI barracks of that city in October 1984. When Mario Fernández had to be transferred to the La Serena Hospital, Díaz Paci lied to the doctors on duty at the hospital, claiming that the detainee came from a Carabineros station and not from the CNI, requesting that the doctors hide the detainee’s condition.

Once Fernández had passed away, the doctor and CNI agent attempted to have the physician who had performed emergency surgery on the victim falsify the death diagnosis, hiding the true reasons for the death.

For all these reasons, Guido Díaz Paci was expelled from the Medical Association. In 1974, he participated in the exhumation of the body of María Ávalos, murdered along with her husband, Bernardo Lejdermann, in December 1973 by a patrol from the Arica Regiment of La Serena.

In the death certificate, he claimed that the woman had blown herself up with dynamite. 9. José María Fuentealba Suazo. Army physician. On October 27, 1973, Fuentealba participated in the delegation that traveled to Río Mayo, in Argentina, to transfer 3 detainees, Juan Vera, Néstor Castillo, and José Rosendo Pérez, who had been captured by the Argentine Gendarmerie when they escaped in search of political asylum.

The delegation was under the command of Captain Joaquín Molina Fuenzalida (murdered by the son of Manuel Contreras) and also included a Carabinero with the surname Salinas and Sub-officer Evaldo Reidlich Hains.

The three prisoners were loaded into a vehicle from the Coyhaique Regional Hospital and transported in the direction of Chile, but they never reached their destination. In April 2002, the judge of the First Criminal Court of Coyhaique, Luis Sepúlveda, indicted Fuentealba Suazo and the retired Carabineros Sub-officer Evaldo Reidlich Hains. 10.

Alejandro Jorge Forero Alvarez. Cardiologist. Medical Association Registry 9580-K. Squadron commander who was serving at the time of the coup d'état at the FACh (Chilean Air Force) Hospital. In 1976, he provided services at the El Bosque Air Base and the Colina Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

In this place, he participated in the Joint Command, supervising torture and drugging prisoners who were taken out to be forcibly disappeared. He was indicted by Judge Carlos Cerda in the middle of the dictatorship.

Recently, he has been summoned again in new proceedings regarding the Joint Command. 11. Werner Gálvez. Pediatrician. Health Colonel in Iquique. At the beginning of the military regime, he administered intravenous injections of sodium pentothal, alternating with biological serum, during interrogations in this city. 12.

Fernando Jara de la Maza. Traumatologist from Valdivia. In the days following the military coup, he participated directly in the application of torture to detainees. 13. Manfred Jurgensen Caesar. CNI physician.

This doctor, who was also a CNI agent, was expelled from the Medical Association for his participation in torture applied to prisoners in clandestine barracks of this repressive organization. Implicated in the death of Federico Álvarez Santibáñez. 14.

Luis Losada Fuenzalida. CNI physician. He was also expelled from the Medical Association for his participation in the torture that culminated in the death of the teacher Federico Álvarez Santibáñez. One hour before the death of Álvarez Santibáñez, who was tortured in August 1979 for seven days in secret CNI barracks in Santiago, he signed a report indicating that the teacher was in good physical condition. 15.

Vittorio Orvieto Teplizky. Army physician. He performed collaborative functions in the torture committed at the Tejas Verdes Prisoner Camp Number Two. He also participated in the DINA Health Brigade as director of the Santa Lucía Clinic. 16.

América González Figueroa. Hired during the dictatorship to perform functions at the Legal Medical Service (SML), where she falsified information regarding the causes of death of several victims of political executions.

Among the cases in which she is implicated are the death due to torture of Carlos Godoy Echegoyen, which she made appear as “sudden death”; the murder of Cecilia Magni Camino, claiming she had drowned and hiding the traces of torture on her body; and the crime of the DC student leader Mario Martínez, who appeared on the coast of Rocas de Santo Domingo after being kidnapped in Santiago.

Another “service to the fatherland” was her participation in the examinations that culminated in the fraud regarding Pinochet’s dementia. In the final period, still at the SML, she was appointed head of the Department of Thanatology and acting director of the service. 17.

Osvaldo Leyton Bahamondes. DINA physician. Implicated in the death by torture of Manuel Leyton Robles, a DINA agent who was murdered by his “colleagues” after being publicly involved in the theft of a Renault 4, a job commissioned by his superior Germán Barriga Muñoz.

Dr. Leyton Bahamondes signed a certificate in which the agent appears to have died due to an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrhythmia at Almirante Barroso 76, the location of the clandestine London clinic. 18.

Bernardo Pulto. Radiologist from Melipilla. Together with the military prosecutor of Melipilla, he personally took part in the torture sessions of prisoners. 19. Sergio Marcelo Virgilio Bocaz. Physician of the DINA Health Brigade, with duties at the clandestine Santa Lucía clinic, who continued working in the CNI Logistics Command.

Marcia Merino claims to have seen him in advertisements for coffee and financial firms. The DINA Health Brigade was composed of, among others, the doctors Vittorio Orvietto, Werner Zanghellini, Hernán Taricco, Nader Nasser, Osvaldo Eugenio Leyton Bahamondez, Rodrigo Vélez, Samuel Valdivia Soto, Luis Hernán Santibáñez Santelices, Eduardo Contreras Balcarce, the gynecologist Juan Pablo Figueroa Yáñez, the otolaryngologist Eugenio Fantuzzi Alliende, the psychiatrist Roberto Lailhacar Chávez, the dentist Sergio Roberto Muñoz Bonta, and the nurse María Eliana Bolumburú Taboada.

Another doctor, of whom only the surname is known, is the psychologist Bassaure. 20. Luis Hernán Santibáñez Santelices. DINA physician. Member of the Health Brigade that operated at the London Clinic (Almirante Barroso).

Implicated in the disappearance of Juan Elías Cortés. 21. Hernán Horacio Taricco Lavín. DINA physician. Head of the Health Brigade that operated at the London Clinic. Implicated in the death of DINA agent Manuel Jesús Leyton Robles. 22.

Werner Zanghellini Martínez. Director of the Santa Lucía Clinic between 1975 and 1976. He is accused by survivors of Villa Grimaldi of having injected the rabies virus into Jorge Fuentes Alarcón, a forcibly disappeared person. He was publicly denounced (funado) at his private clinic at Galvarino Gallardo 1983, Providencia, and the following day he moved to a nearby office belonging to a relative.

Source: El Ciudadano, July 30, 2013