Doctor accused of killing coronavirus patients to free up beds

The forensic investigation, which began two months ago, has begun to find support in the hypothesis regarding the doctor’s behavior in the events that allegedly took place in March 2020, and among Mosca’s possible deaths is a 61 year old man named Natale Bassi and another 80 year old named Angelo Paletti, both from Brescia.

But as the presumption that there would be other deaths at the hands of the Meuse, the prosecution is investigating the cause of “three other abnormal deaths”.

According to Italian justice, Mosca did not only intend to “free up beds” by killing patients, otherwise what too I did it for freeing up “the human, physical and emotional resources of doctors, nurses and emergency room operators”.

Mosca’s situation became increasingly complicated when it was discovered that the medical records of these patients detailed a “sudden and difficult to explain worsening” of the health conditions. It was then that the forensic analysis was ordered and the key that would later allow us to reach the doctor in question was detected: in the tissues and organs of one of the dead there was the presence an anesthetic drug and muscle relaxant commonly used in intubation and sedation which, if used outside of specific dosages and procedures, can result in death.

According to investigators, the doctor had not included the administration of this drug in the patient’s medical history, which is why he was also charged with “falsifying a public document”.

After the Lombard police detected irregularities in the deaths of several patients at Montichiari hospital, the case had a great impact and outrage increased at the pace of the investigation as Italy is in the one of the most difficult times due to the pandemic, with hospitals overflowing due to the uncontrolled rise in infections and deaths.

Of course, Mosca denies having committed the acts, but given the progress of the case, he has already been suspended from his duties and is under house arrest in Mantua.

But beyond denying the facts, Mosca’s situation was even more complicated during a WhatsApp conversation between a nurse The emergency department of the Montichiari hospital and another person intervened by the justice: “I’m not going to kill patients just because he wants to free up beds,” the health worker said in his post.

This post, and Mosca’s attempt after knowing the autopsy results, revealed that “he approached staff members to agree on an appropriate version of the story, even urging them to make a false statement. declaration”.