A doctor in northern Italy has been accused of issuing lethal doses of drugs to elderly coronavirus patients in order to free up hospital beds during the first wave of the pandemic in March.
The two patients were exhumed last month and determined to have had doses of the drugs succinylcholine and propofol in their system,Both drugs are commonly used when patients are placed on a ventilator, but investigators discovered from medical files neither of the patients were intubated while at the hospital. Using the drugs on non-intubated patients causes them to suffocate, according to the court documents reported on by the publication.
When nurses started refusing Mosca's orders to inject patients with the drugs, he allegedly began doing it himself. According to, prosecutors say he then wrote false terminal diagnoses on the patients' charts to make their deaths seem more believable.
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