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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
DEVILISH!!!: Brazilian Doctor Killed 300 Patients To Free Up Hospital Beds
A Brazilian doctor appeared in court for allegedly killing seven patients to free up hospital beds in the southeast city of Curitiba.
Virginia Helena Soares de Souza recruited a group of doctors to help administer lethal doses of anesthetics, sedatives and painkillers, according to authorities.
In addition, the group allegedly altered oxygen levels for patients, leading to deaths by asphyxiation, police said.
Virginia Soares de Souza is being investigated by the Brazilian health authorities on suspicion of intentionally killing close to 300 patients to free up hospital beds at the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.
The Daily Mail reports Doctor de Souza was first arrested last month after several patients in her care died in suspicious circumstances. The patients reportedly died prematurely at the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.
According to UK's Mirror, the doctor is accused of having administered "fatal doses of a muscle relaxant or cutting off patients' life support" in the seven separate cases. She drastically cut the level of oxygen the patients were receiving at the hospital's intensive care ward below the minimum required for their survival.
According to the Daily Mail, she is accused of having reduced the oxygen that one of her patients, Ivo Spitzer, was receiving from 45 percent to 21 percent which was not sufficient for his survival. The patient also received a muscle relaxant Pavulon an hour before he died.
After she was held on suspicion of death of seven patients, an inquiry by Brazil's Health Ministry uncovered 20 other suspicious cases and now about 300 other cases are being investigated after a consistent pattern was detected.
According to The Huffington Post, Dr. Mario Lobato, who is heading the investigation, told Brazil's Fantastico TV that de Souza "played God" by deciding which person should die to free up hospital bed space.
The Daily Mail reports Lobato said: "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."
According to Lobato, in the case of the patient Ivo Spitzer, the reduction of oxygen and the drug pavulon caused death. Investigators noticed the same pattern in several other deaths, the Daily Mail writes.
Lobato said: "All of them have the same modus operando, the same relationship between the drug and death, and the same time between both." Lobato said that some of the patients died prematurely with many being conscious and talking moments before they died.
He said: "One was awake, being nebulised but not even connected to a respirator. This patient had asked his family to bring his glasses so he could do some reading while he was in the intensive care ward. Another patient had just asked a nurse for a cup of water. This nurse testified that one of the things she will never forget is that she didn't manage to give him the cup of water because by the time she returned he had already died."
The Huffingotn Post reports that De Souza's lawyer Elias Mattar Assad said his client was innocent. Assad said: "Soon we will be able to prove that what happened in that ward can be justified in medical writings," according to the Daily Mail. Three other doctors and a nurse have been arrested on suspicion of collaborating with de Souza.
The Mirror notes that if the allegations against De Souza turn out to be true then she would take over the distinction of the "deadliest serial killer in history" from a British doctor Harold Shipman who reportedly killed between 215 and 260 people before he was convicted in 2000. Shipman reportedly hanged himself in prison in 2004.
The Daily Mail reports Shipman hanged himself in prison at the age of 57, after having murdered at least 215 patients aged between 47 and 93 over 25 years.
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