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A doctor has been arrested on charges of intentionally causing the deaths of two covid patients in Brescia, Italy. The head of the Montichiari hospital emergency room, Carlo Mosca , is charged with a crime of involuntary homocide for presumably administering drugs with anesthetic and neuromuscular blocking effect to patients.
The doctor He was arrested by order of the judge who is instructing the case and is under house arrest due to the risk that he will act again if he joins his duties.
The facts They date back to March 2020, the date on which Italian hospitals were overwhelmed by the virulence of the pandemic. The Public Ministry and Police launched a investigation months later after a complaint filed on 13 April and on the suspicion that the death of some patients would have been caused by medical practices performed “consciously” by a doctor.
The analysis of the clinical history of numerous patients revealed that in some cases there had been a “sudden, and not easily explainable worsening of health conditions ”, according to the newspaper Brescia Today.
The forensic analyzes revealed, within the tissues and organs of one of the deceased, the presence of an f anesthetic drug and a muscle relaxant commonly used in patient intubation and sedation which, if used outside of specific procedures and doses, can lead to death of the patient. The doctor did not include his administration in the medical history so he is also accused of “falsification in a public document.”
Part of the medical team of the hospital of Brescia knew of the doctor’s irregular behavior. In a chat, two nurses asked each other “Did he ask you to administer the drugs without intubation? I’m killing them just because he wants to free the bed. ” “I agree with you, this is crazy”, were phrases rescued from the conversation.
The doctor He is charged with the death of two patients of 61 and 80 years . In a third case, researchers were unable to reconstruct the causal link between death and drug administration because the body was cremated.
