The head of the emergency department of the hospital in the Italian city of Montichiari, Carlo Mosca, was suspected of killing patients with coronavirus in order to free beds. This is reported by La Repubblica.
The publication notes that the 47-year-old doctor was recently considered a hero, since he worked for days with infected patients in the so-called “dirty zone”. Last spring, when Italy was the world leader in the rate of COVID-19 spread, Mosca did not see his family for two months, saving the lives of patients. Now the physician is called “doctor death”.
Nurses from the clinic where Mosca worked reported that the doctor often demanded to bring him potent drugs, although this was not provided for by the protocol for treating coronavirus. In addition, the doctor asked to be left alone with seriously ill patients, which also raised suspicions among the staff.
There are at least two known deaths of patients due to the actions of a doctor. So, according to the Italian prosecutor’s office, in March, Mosca administered lethal doses of a potent anesthetic – propofol to 61-year-old Natale Bassi and 80-year-old Angelo Paletti. At the moment, law enforcement officers are establishing the doctor’s involvement in four more deaths in a hospital in Lombardy.
The motives for the murders are not yet clear. The doctor’s colleagues believe that he has gone insane due to the stress in the pandemic. However, police believe that Mosca was getting rid of what he believed to be hopeless patients in order to make room for new patients.
The police arrested a doctor on suspicion of murder and falsification of patient records in their medical records. Moscow itself denies all charges against it and does not admit that it used potent drugs.