Total Havlickuv Brod hospital death toll put at 11

Eleven patients died in a hospital in the east Bohemian town of Havlickuv Brod due to incorrect medical treatment, an expert commission has concluded. The commission had been set up after it emerged that police had charged a former male nurse at the hospital Petr Zelenka last December with the murder of eight patients. Zelenka was charged with deliberately administering lethal doses of the blood-thinning drug Heparin. He has since admitted the charges and now faces life imprisonment, although his defence lawyers claim he is mentally ill. Altogether, the commission investigated more than 20 suspicious deaths. Of the 11 who died due to incorrect treatment, 10 were given excessive doses of Heparin while 1 is thought to have been given a lethal dose of insulin.