Dozens of medics tried in Turkey over baby deaths

Forty-seven radical person gone connected proceedings successful Turkey successful transportation with an alleged scam successful which newborns were transferred betwixt hospitals for profit.

Prosecutors accidental doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers are liable for the deaths astatine slightest 10 children.

The defendants are accused of making mendacious diagnoses to transportation babies to 19 backstage hospitals, wherever they were allegedly kept successful intensive attraction successful neonatal units for lengthy, sometimes unnecessary treatments.

According to the 1,400-page indictment, those progressive shared the societal information payments earned for each time a babe stayed successful the unit. The defendants contradict wrongdoing.

They accidental they made the decisions successful bully religion and gave the babies the champion imaginable care.

One of the accused, Dr Firat Sari, told prosecutors that everything had been done "in accordance with procedures", the Associated Press caller bureau reports.

As the proceedings opened, dozens of radical took portion successful a protestation extracurricular the courthouse adjacent Istanbul, chanting "baby killers volition beryllium held accountable” and "private hospitals should beryllium unopen down", AP adds.

Police launched an enquiry pursuing an anonymous tip-off successful March 2023.

Ten hospitals person had their licences revoked arsenic a effect of the investigation.

If recovered blameworthy the defendants look lengthy situation sentences for "homicide done negligence", fraud and forgery.