Nurse suspected of attempted murder of 3 patients in Germany

Berlin, November 11 

A nurse has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of tried homicide following allegations that he gave three sufferers overdoses of medication they weren’t alleged to obtain in hopes of heroically rescuing them, authorities mentioned Wednesday.

The 24-year-old man was arrested on Monday, German information company dpa reported.

The alleged crimes befell at a Munich college hospital on the finish of October and on Saturday, and all three sufferers survived, authorities mentioned.

The nurse, whose identify wasn’t launched in keeping with German privateness guidelines, is being investigated on suspicion of three counts of tried homicide, Munich prosecutor Anne Leiding mentioned.

The nurse denied the accusations. He had labored on the Klinikum rechts der Isar hospital since July by way of a short lived employment company.

Police mentioned they’d verify for any additional potential victims or irregularities from the time he labored there.

The hospital mentioned that the situation of two sufferers worsened unexpectedly on Saturday, and an examination led to suspicions they got a medication they should not have been. Similar suspicions arose within the case of a 3rd affected person.

The nurse concerned was suspended from responsibility instantly and police had been contacted, the hospital mentioned. One of the three sufferers remains to be in a “serious but stable” situation. The different two are thought of out of hazard, dpa reported.

Investigators would not say what substance was discovered within the sufferers’ blood.

The Munich prosecutor mentioned on-line chats urged that the nurse wished to tell apart himself with resuscitation efforts. She wouldn’t say with whom he had the chats, dpa reported.

The allegations are harking back to a case in northern Germany, the place a former nurse, Niels Hoegel, was convicted of homicide final 12 months and sentenced to life in jail for killing 85 sufferers by intentionally bringing about cardiac arrests.

Hoegel injected sufferers with overdoses of coronary heart medicine and different medicine as a result of he loved the sensation of with the ability to resuscitate them, authorities mentioned.

His conviction final 12 months got here on high of a earlier one for 2 murders. He is believed to be trendy Germany’s most prolific serial killer. —AP