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A SCOTTISH consultant was yesterday accused of giving a massive dose of a paralysing drug to two terminally-ill babies to hasten their deaths in an act that was "tantamount to euthanasia".A hearing of the General Medical Council (GMC) in Manchester was told that Dr Michael Munro, who worked in the neonatal unit at Aberdeen's Maternity Hospital, gave 23 times the normal dose of a muscle relaxant drug to the two premature babies before they died. The consultant neonatologist was also accused of failing to record his actions in the medical notes of either child and concealing his use of the drug during an investigation after colleagues raised concerns with health authorities.Dr Munro, 41, is appearing before the fitness to practise panel of the GMC following an investigation into the deaths of two babies at the maternity hospital in 2005. If found guilty, he could be struck off the medical register.The first child, identified only as "Baby Y", died in the summer of 2005. The second,"Baby X" - previously named as Lewis Anderson, whose parents Neil and Susan live in Aberdeen - died in December of the same year. He was more than three months premature when he died.Dr Munro is alleged to have hastened the deaths of the two infants by administering pancuronium, a drug which is used with general anaesthesia in surgery. The drug is also a component of the lethal injection used in some US states to execute death row prisoners....
To read more about this disgrace to the medical profession go to:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1053952007
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