ITALIAN DOCTOR ACCUSED OF KILLING COVID-19 PATIENTS

Dr. Carlo Mosca, who ran the emergency department in Italian Montichiari, Lombardy, was accused of killing several patients. They were injected with anesthetics and muscle relaxants, which led to death. At the moment, the doctor is under house arrest and subsequently must appear before a court.

It is possible that, along with the killing, he will be charged with forging medical documents.

So far, the death of two patients has been confirmed - their breathing was depressingly affected by the medicines used by the doctor.

The victims were Natal Bassi, 61, and Angelo Palletti, 80, whose bodies were exhumed in a police raid following a clandestine investigation. It turned out that Carlo Mosca injected them with potent drugs, usually used when patients placed on ventilators. However, there was no evidence that the patients were intubated in the hospital.

Both patients died during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic that hit Italy in the spring of 2020. An anonymous note (presumably from the nurses who called the doctor crazy) helped to find the “killer doctor”, as the Italian press calls the detainee. The note was received by the law enforcement officers.

According to the Brescia Today media, the report said that the reason for the physician's actions was the desire to free up beds in the hospital for other patients.

We should recall that March 2020 was a turning point for Italy. Lombardy, where the Carlo Mosca hospital is located, was the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, which subsequently spread throughout Europe. More than 5 thousand infected with COVID-19 were reported in the country every day. Newspapers described the facts of patients fainting right on the streets of cities, and overcrowded hospitals experienced a real disaster

Eyewitnesses note that during the spread of the pandemic last spring, the 47-year-old doctor was considered a hero by many. It is known that he worked in the “red” zone without leaving the hospital for several months, and did not see his own family. His colleagues believe that the reason for the act could be mental overload, which Carlo Mosca could not withstand. The clinic staff began to suspect the doctor after he made requests to leave him alone with dying patients.