00:00Two doctors and a nurse from a hospital in Bucharest have been arrested in a case of
00:06suspicious deaths. In mid-April, 17 patients died within four days in the hospital's intensive
00:13care unit, triggering a series of investigations. Prosecutors say the doctors had hatched a
00:19plan to deliberately lead the patients into cardiorespiratory arrest.
00:23The aim, prosecutors say, was to cause the death of patients whom the doctors deemed
00:40should no longer be kept alive. The doctors have been charged with aggravated murder and
00:46and the nurse with perjury. The manager of the hospital announced that both he and the
00:58medical director will submit their resignation.