Doctor accused of killing COVID-19 patients to free up beds: Italy
Dr Carlo Mosca has been arrested over the deaths that occurred last March when the hospital was overwhelmed. He denies the allegations.
An Italian doctor has been arrested on suspicion of killing two COVID-19 patients to free up intensive care beds.
According to multiple media reports, Dr Carlo Mosca allegedly administered succinylcholine and propofol to two patients, aged 61 and 80, while working as head of emergency at Montichiari Hospital near Brescia, Lombardy.
The drugs were being used to anaesthetise COVID-19 patients before intubation, which neither patient received.
The deaths occurred in March last year, as the hospital was overwhelmed by the first outbreak of the virus.
