A worker is sentenced for erasing the record of frozen embryos at Son Llàtzer.

PalmAn administrative assistant of the Health Service of the Balearic Islands has been sentenced to one and a half years of prison and disqualification for having eliminated the data from the registry of frozen embryos of the hospital of They are LazarusThe sentence is the result of an agreement between the Prosecutor's Office, the accused, and the autonomous community.

The events date back to November 9 and 14, 2023, shortly after the woman was transferred to the Joan March center. Using her personal password and, despite not being authorized, she accessed the data registry and intentionally deleted information related to 1,712 embryos and 414 oocytes, according to reports. Breaking News and Mallorca Diary This Saturday.

Previously, her work at the Son Llàtzer Reproduction Unit consisted of managing the frozen embryo database and safeguarding patients' informed consent documents. This record is essential for maintaining traceability of the linked embryos and oocytes.

The hospital's IT department later discovered that the files had disappeared and could not be recovered. However, a backup copy of one of the spreadsheets, unknown to the employee, existed, which allowed some of the information to be restored.

Son Llàtzer statement

After the news was made public, Son Llàtzer issued a statement explaining that at no time was the traceability or identification of embryos or oocytes compromised. They also emphasized that the case was an isolated incident with no clinical or biological repercussions for the patients.