AN Italian ER doctor was arrested
Monday on suspicion of administering lethal drugs to two
COVID-19 patients at a public hospital at Montichiari in the
province of Brescia north of Milan.
The doctor, acting ward chief Carlo Mosca, has been charged with
murder, police said.
He is suspected of deliberately giving the two patients
anaesthetic and nerve and muscle-blocking drugs, causing their
deaths.
The deaths occurred during the first wave of the pandemic, in
March, police said.
The man has been placed under house arrest and police say there
is a risk he may reoffend.
His suspected victims were aged 51 and 80.
Mosca is suspected of murdering the two patients to try to ease
the pressure on the ER, which was being overwhelmed during the
critical early days of the pandemic in northern Italy.
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