German prosecutors have charged two former senior physicians with 31 cases of attempted murder as part of a long-running transplant scandal at a hospital in the eastern part of the country.
The charges against the two senior physicians, who have not been named, followed an 18-month long investigation by prosecutors into allegations of fraud in connection with the liver transplants at the clinic, which first emerged in early 2013.
Prosecutors claim that the physicians, who were employed at the Leipzig University’s transplant clinic, systematically arranged for false information so as to allow patients to move up the waiting list for liver transplants, as a result ignoring other terminally ill patients.
A total of 23 patients received fast-track liver operations, the prosecutors say.
“Such a conscious and active thwarting of the emergency help for another person is … attempted or simply homicide,” prosecutors’ said.
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