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Malmö Östra hospital murders
Malmö Östra hospital murders is the name of a Swedish case of serial murders committed by the then 18-year-old Anders Hansson at a hospital in Malmö between October 1978 and January 1979. Hansson poisoned elderly patients during working hours as an orderly with the detergents Gevisol and Ivisol.
At the long-term care part of the hospital a total of 27 patients were poisoned to death, with at least 15 confirmed to be victims. Another 15 patients were also victims of attempted murder. In August 1979
as well, but usually he administered an overdose of whichever drug the patient had been prescribed, or wrote unnecessary prescriptions for dangerous drugs.
See also.
- John Bodkin Adams – British doctor and suspected serial killer
- H. H. Holmes
- Jayant Patel
- Harold Shipman – Doctor and Britain's most prolific serial killer
- Beverley Allitt
- Lainz Angels of Death
- Malmö Östra hospital murders
- 2011 Stepping Hill Hospital poisoning incident
- Niels Högel - German nurse who murdered approximately 100 patients