In Italy, within a three month long period 38 families moaned their loved ones who lost their lives while remained hospitalized in Lugo hospital in Ravenna.
Since all patients were suffering of heavy health issues and were old, the deaths didn’t come as a complete surprise, however, rumors about a nurse with an unusual behavior was didn’t go unnoticed by staff and local authorities.
According to Italian reports, nurse Daniela Potzali, is likely to be responsible for 38 deaths, since it was established that a patient lost her life after the above nurse injected her with potassium chloride.
Following her arrest for the death of the patient, more light comes to the surface for the rest of the deaths, while her colleagues at the hospital, describe her being cold, apathetic, frigid, vindictive.
As an ex colleague of Potzali notes, “she was constantly argument with her colleagues, taking initiatives, giving unauthorized medication to patients”, while others speak of” her giving to “difficult” patients sedatives, and to others laxatives in order to make the shifts of other nurses unpleasant.
At the same time the Italia Press compares her with nurse Jane Topan, who was accused of murdering 31 people in 1900 in Cambridge hospital.
After her arrest, her supervisor reveled that previously she had made a report about her behavior, without however an investigation taking place.
According to a doctor of the hospital, in one occasion the accused nurse had suggested to him once to give two bottles of sodium chloride to a “difficult” patience, but of course he took it as a joke.
Finally, when yet another colleague of nurse Daniela Potzali, reported her for stealing medicine, she found on her car windshield a bouquet of cyclamen tied with a black ribbon.