Brazilian doctor accused of killing more than 300 patients
A Brazilian doctor is believed to have killed up to 300 patients. Virginia Soares de Souza is a doctor in the Evangelica Hospital in the Brazilian city of Curitiba accused of administering lethal muscle-relaxing drugs to patients on life-support to free up beds.
As The Guardian reports, authorities have charged her with the murder of seven patients but Brazil’s Ministry of Health thinks she has killed many more. Prosecutors claim Soares injected the drug Pavulon in the victims after dialling down “the oxygen on their respirators.” The doctor was arrested in February but denies any wrongdoing.
Mario Lobato, who’s leading the investigation, was quoted as saying: “There are 20 cases which have already been closed, and we have nearly 300 cases still open which we are looking at. In each case, the testimony of people who worked inside the hospital confirmed what we have found on the patient records.”
Elias Mattar Assad, De Souza’s lawyer, said: “We will soon prove that everything that happened in that ICU was justified by medical procedure.”
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