Torino / euthanasia, a nurse suspected
had arrived at the hospital in Turin on August 7, in an irreversible coma after attempting suicide with an overdose of opiates. Sandra Lepore, 42-year old homeless, had no chance to survive, doctors to man the parents had made it clear. But August 13 is the man who died in circumstances very strange. And the prosecutor has now opened a file against a nurse: the suspicion is that he practiced euthanasia.
A trigger investigations has been the complaint of a medical intensive care unit, has warned that it is the same hospital San Giovanni Bosco di Torino and the prosecutor. Because, apparently, death was caused by an injection of sedative. And so the prosecutors in Turin have opened a file for murder, assuming that the nurse had "helped" the man to die. But according to the head of the department, Sergio Livigni, might be all a mistake: "I learned of the investigation opened by the prosecutors - the doctor explains to The Associated Press - There is talk of a sedative, a lethal dose. But after the first checks to me that the patient was administered two hours before death: perhaps it's been too long because we can talk about cause and effect.
However, for the moment the nurse, who has received a notice of, was transferred "away from the patients," then the local health authorities will act as depending on the decisions of the prosecutor: "Decisions ASL - says the medical director, Claude Mellan, speaking on behalf of Directorate-General - will be taken after the developments of the investigation. For the moment, the nurse who has worked for us for many years, was removed from the lane "