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25 Patients Died of Overdose, This American Doctor is Sued

Ohio, USA - A grand jury charged William Husel, a doctor in the state of Ohio, United States, with the murder of 25 critical patients at the hospital on Wednesday (5/6). He allegedly gave synthetic fentanyl opioids with a lethal dose to accelerate the death of these patients. This act was allegedly carried out when he worked at the Mount Carmel Health System hospital network, in the capital of the Midwestern state, Columbus.

District Attorney Franklin Ron O'Brien also told in a news conference that, he has been a public prosecutor for 22 years and he has never seen murder charges of up to 25 people like this.

The letter of this accusation is the latest from the disclosure of cases that indicate the failure of several health protection institutions. This also raises the question whether there was involvement of dozens of nurses and pharmacists working with Husel. Husel's murder was carried out for 4 years. Approximately there are 35 patients who were almost dead or critically ill who became the victims, and some of these patients were not expected to survive.

However, cold hand murder detective in the Columbus Police Department focusing the criminal investigations on 25 patients more, because they received a prescription for a dose of 500 micrograms of fentanyl. This dosage according to the prosecutor is higher than it should be and really dangerous.

Allegation against Husel was revealed after hospital lawyers called the police to report the possibility of a crime. The hospital has suspended Husel from patient care in November 2018 and soon, Husel was then no longer a doctor in that hospital.

It is reported that, every his criminal act has the potential to get a sentence of 15 years to life imprisonment. However, Husel's lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.

However, Ed Lamb, the head of Mount Carmel Health Systems, said in a statement that, since Husel's alleged actions were revealed, the organization had implemented meaningful changes in their entire system to ensure events like this never happened again in the future.

Source: https://www.cnnindonesia.com/internasional/20190606050128-134-401280/dokter-di-as-dituntut-akibat-beri-dosis-mematikan-25-pasien