Doctors investigated over reusing implants from dead patients: Romania
A 'network' of doctors are suspected of extracting cardiac implants without permission for reuse in hundreds of surgeries
Romanian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into five doctors suspected of reusing hundreds of medical implants extracted from dead patients.
One of the five doctors, who was working at a hospital in the eastern Romanian city of Iasi, has been taken into custody pending the investigation on charges of abuse of power and bribe taking, prosecutors said in a statement.
