An Italian doctor is accused of killing COVID-19 patients with lethal doses of anesthetic to free up bed space at the height of the pandemic. His name is Carlo Mosca, 47, and he was the head of accident and emergency at Montichiari Hospital near Brescia, Lombardy. The hospital was overwhelmed by the massive coronavirus outbreak in Italy in March 2020.
Anesthetics were available so that coronavirus patients could be intubated, but if a patient given the drug wasn’t intubated they would sophisticate to death. The doctor left the patients to die naturally they could be in the hospital bed of weeks to a month. The injection could free up a bed immediately for the constants stream of patients needing hem.
An anonymous complaint against Mosca from late April included a WhatsApp text which read: “I am not in favor of killing patients just because he wants to free up beds” and a reply from a colleague that said: “I agree with you, he’s crazy,” according to The Times.
The doctor is accused of killing at least two patients, Natale Bassi, 61, who died on March 20, 2020 and 80-year-old Angelo Paletti who died two days later. Mosca has also been accused of faking health records with court documents saying it was done to “make the patient appear terminal and therefore not arouse suspicion,” the Daily Mail reported. The doctor is currently under house arrest at his home in Mantua and a further three deaths are also being investigated, the Mirror noted.