Brazilian Doctor May Have Been Involved in 300 Deaths

A Brazilian doctor has been charged with killing seven patients by administering muscle-relaxing drugs and then reducing their oxygen supply with asphyxia as the resulting cause of death. Why? Prosecutors who charged Dr. Virginia Soares de Souza listened to wiretaps of her conversations and learned that her motive was to free up hospital beds in the intensive care unit for other patients.

“I want to clear the intensive care unit. It’s making me itch…Unfortunately, our mission is to be go-betweens on the springboard to the next life.” De Souza said in the recordings.

Authorities are combing over 1,700 medical records of patients who died over the past seven years in the intensive care unit managed by De Souza and estimate the number of suspicious deaths may reach up to 300 cases. According to a Reuters article, “If prosecutors prove that De Souza killed 300 patients, this could be one of the world’s worst serial killings……”

Read the Reuters news article here.

Barbara Lyons