Italy: a doctor has been accused of killing people c …

At Italy, justice is investigating a doctor from Lombardy suspected of kill coronavirus patients to ‘free up beds’. This is the doctor Carlo Mosca, director general of the emergency service of the Montichiari hospital, who according to the prosecution’s prosecution would have provided “Lethal drugs” with neuromuscular blocking effect to at least two patients with covid-19 who entered his health center.

According to the investigation which began barely two months ago, although the events would have occurred in March 2020, among the possible deaths of Mosca, there is a 61-year-old man named Natale Bassi and 80-year-old named Angelo Paletti, both from the municipality of Brescia.

The list, the prosecution suspects, could be much longer, so they are under investigation within the case. other “three abnormal deaths” this could be attributed to the intervention of Dr Mosca.

The doctor, who denied the facts and insisted on his innocence, is suspended from duty and has been placed under house arrest at his home in Mantua.

The investigation

As Italy went through one of the most difficult times of the pandemic, with overflowing hospitals and an uncontrollable increase in infections and deaths from the coronavirus, Lombard police detected irregularities in the deaths of some patients in the area. Montichiari hospital.

The medical records of these patients detailed a “sudden and difficult to explain” worsening of health problems, reported the Brescia Today website.

It was then that the forensic analysis was ordered and the key that would later allow Dr Mosca to be reached: Inside the tissues and organs of one of the dead was the presence of an anesthetic and muscle relaxant commonly used in intubation and sedation which, if used outside of procedures and specific doses, can lead to 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”.

According to Italian justice, Mosca did not only want “free beds” kill patients, but also freeing up “the human, physical and emotional resources of doctors, nurses and emergency room operators”.

What does the doctor say

To date, Mosca denied all charges published by Judge Angela Corvi and assured that it was “unfounded allegations”.

However, there is a whatsapp conversation – who intervened by justice – between an emergency nurse from Montichiari hospital and another person who would complicate the doctor’s version: “I’m not going to kill patients just because he wants to free up beds.”the health worker said in his post.

In addition, justice also warned against Mosca’s behavior when the results of the autopsy were known, because according to Corvi the doctor “approached the staff members to agree on an appropriate version of the story, even urging them to make a false statement. “