28 April 2004 07:42
Four Moscow doctors charged with plotting murder for organs (Part 2)
MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - Several employees of Moscow City Hospital #20 have been charged with plotting murder in
order to obtain organs for transplantation, the Moscow prosecutor's office said in a release obtained by Interfax
on Wednesday.
A 51-year-old man with a serious head injury was brought to the hospital on April 11, 2003, the prosecutor's
office said. "The patient was listed in critical condition, which is why information about a possible donor was
sent to the Moscow Coordination Center for Organ Donation," reads the release.
When law enforcement officers came to the hospital, they found the hospital staff preparing the man for organ
removal. "Intensive care doctors from the clinical department of the Moscow GUVD [Main Internal Affairs
Department], who arrived with police, found A. Orekhov outside the intensive care unit prepared for kidney
removal," the release said. The patient was still alive when he was found, the document says.
"Charges have been brought against four people: Irina Litsman, deputy head of the intensive care department of
Hospital #20, Lyubov Pravdenko, a doctor in that department, and Pyotr Pyatnichuk and Bairm Shagdurov, transplant
surgeons with the Moscow Coordination Center for Organ Donation," the release reads. Lirtsman has also been charged
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