{"id":194526,"date":"2019-01-22T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194526"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T22:34:34","slug":"patients-euthanized-ohio-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/patients-euthanized-ohio-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror: 27 patients euthanized through drug overdose at Ohio hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Ohio Hospital is facing allegations that employees euthanized 27 patients between 2015 and 2018. The Columbus Dispatch reports<\/a> that Mount Carmel Health Systems released a statement admitting that a doctor in the intensive care unit prescribed \u201csignificantly excessive and potentially fatal\u201d doses of pain medication to at least 27 patients.<\/p>\n

The doctor accused of killing the patients, Dr. William Husel, has been fired, and the hospital system has turned over details of an internal investigation to the authorities, an executive said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The public statement from the hospital came after a lawsuit was filed against Dr. Husel, a pharmacist, and a nurse, alleging that they administered a fatal dose of a narcotic to a 79-year-old woman in 2017. All the patients allegedly killed or hastened in death by drug overdose had been removed from lifesaving care at the request of their families.<\/p>\n

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the lawsuit indicated:<\/p>\n

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\u201cJanet Kavanaugh was given a given 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl through an IV on Dec. 11, 2017, and died within 18 minutes. The opioid is about 100 times stronger than morphine.\u201d Dr. Stephen Bird, a doctor specializing in emergency medicine and toxicology, filed an affidavit with the lawsuit indicating that the amount of fentanyl given to Kavanaugh was \u201cinappropriate and excessive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n