In Sweden, doctors are said to have provided active euthanasia to senior citizens – instead of potentially life-saving COVID-19 treatment.
Umea – In Sweden, doctors are said to have provided active euthanasia to senior citizens – instead of potentially life-saving COVID-19 treatment.
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There is a suspicion in Sweden that many older COVID-19 patients are no longer cured. (Icon image) © 123rf.com/Chayakorn Lot
Yngve Gustafson (71) makes serious allegations. According to the Swedish daily “Dagens Nyheter”, the professor of geriatrics at Umeå University believes that many older people in Sweden are no longer being treated for COVID-19.
Instead, they would receive palliative care directly because they are no longer curable.
It is also said that many corona patients, but also routinely older people with pneumonia, are given a morphine cocktail in the nursing homes that slowly inhibits breathing. “This is active euthanasia, if not worse,” says Gustafson.
The doctor emphasizes that the percentage of elderly people who are ventilated in the intensive care unit is therefore lower, although older people in Sweden are most affected by the corona virus.
At the same time, there are most corona deaths in this group. “It shows that we decided to give up the elderly who would have a chance of survival,” said Gustafson.
His presumption is confirmed by a doctor from Stockholm, who according to “Dagens Nyheter” wants to remain anonymous. He told the newspaper that the fatal cocktail contained a sedative and a pain reliever, both of which were high doses. Elderly patients with COVID-19 would get it in hospitals and nursing homes.
Typically, such a mixture will occur in people cancer administered in the final stage, which then slowly fall asleep forever.
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However, this significantly accelerates the death of corona patients. And: relatives often know nothing about it because a visit is prohibited. Ethical aspects would not be raised among colleagues. “I think it is illegal and some of these patients could survive,” said the anonymous specialist.
An example of this is 81-year-old Jan Andersson, who was infected with the corona virus in a nursing home in Märsta near Stockholm at the end of March. According to his son, Thomas Andersson, a doctor on the phone ordered a nurse to give Jan Andersson morphine. All of this happened without the patient’s consent and without informing his family.
When Thomas Andersson got wind of it at the beginning of April, he immediately intervened and asked the medical staff to give his father medication that would make him well, instead of the opiate. Jan Andersson soon recovered and could be released home.
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