Polish paramedics jailed for murdering patients

[VentMedic]

As posted on the JEMS newsletter http://www.jems.com/news/278561/

Polish paramedics jailed for murdering patients
By Ed Holt
The Lancet
Copyright 2007

One of the longest, most macabre cases in Polish legal history came to a close last month. Two Polish paramedics who murdered patients and then sold their victims to local undertakers were finally sentenced to prison 5 years after local media discovered the scandal. Ed Holt reports.

Last month, a court in Poland sentenced Andrzej Nowocien to spend the rest of his life in prison, and Karol Banas to 25 years in jail, for murdering patients while they worked at Lodz Hospital's emergency ward between 2000 and 2001. Two other men were also jailed. Janusz Kuklinski was sentenced to 6 years for knowingly failing to protect the lives of ten patients, and Pawel Wasilewski was given a 5-year sentence after being convicted of the same charge. All four have also been charged with taking money from undertakers in exchange for information about new deaths.

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[Airwaygoddess]

OH MY LORD!! Iam never going to Poland!:unsure: That is right out of a Steven King novel, YIPES!!!

 

[BossyCow]

Soooo.... I'm guessing that EMS personnel don't get paid much in salary in Poland eh? I have to admire the entreprenurial ingenuity!

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Soooo.... I'm guessing that EMS personnel don't get paid much in salary in Poland eh? I have to admire the entreprenurial ingenuity!

Oh lord I am laughing so hard!^_^ ^_^ good one Bossycow!

 

[Luno]

Apparently I'm not venturing very far outside of King County either...

 

[emtgirl_in_training]

ummm... when i read the title, i thought "oh no a terrible polish joke" do people still tell those??

 

[firecoins]

ummm... when i read the title, i thought "oh no a terrible polish joke" do people still tell those??

those jokes can only be told by people walking into a bar.

 

[bled12345]

I just backpacked europe this last summer, and when we were in krakow poland my friend broke his heel jumping off the roof of a 1 story building ( i know ) but he said the polish hospital staff was excellent.


my experience of krakow was that the people were genuinely honest, very polite, and friendly. It was one of the favourite places during my entire trip. Not to mention anyone under 30 speaks damn near excellent english.