A doctor has been arrested in Germany for allegedly killing two coronavirus patients. The doctor confessed to giving death medicine to a patient.
The coronavirus patients who died at the hands of a doctor in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, were 47 and 50 years old, respectively, with chronic illness.
According to police, a senior doctor at the hospital allegedly gave the two patients a drug that killed them. The arrested doctor said during the interrogation that he had given medicine to a patient for his early death to 'save him from further trouble'.
A 44-year-old senior doctor at Essen University Hospital was arrested on Wednesday and remanded in custody on Thursday on murder charges.
Hospital officials say they suspected the sudden death of two patients on the 13th and 17th of this month, after which the local prosecutor's office was notified and the senior doctor treating the patients was immediately suspended. Was given
According to police, the doctor admitted his role in the death of a patient and said that he had made this decision to 'save the patient and his family from further suffering'.