ALS patient contract murder case: Doctors give sleeping pills from "stomach fistula" July 25, 18:26
In a contract murder case where two doctors killed a woman in Kyoto city suffering from intractable disease, ALS with a drug, the drug administered to the woman was a sleeping pill used in countries such as overseas euthanasia Was found in interviews with investigators.
Police are investigating the sleeping pill as if it had been given from a "stomach fistula," which feeds the stomach directly into the stomach.
Both doctors, Kouichi Okubo (42) and Naoki Yamamoto (43), received a request from a 51-year-old woman in Kyoto City who suffered from ALS, an intractable disease in which the muscles of the whole body gradually stopped moving in November last year. He was arrested on suspicion of a part-time murder after he was reportedly treated with a drug and killed, and the court decided to detain him for 10 days until the 3rd of next month on the 25th.
A woman died of acute drug poisoning, and as a result of the police identifying the components of the drug detected in the body, it was reported that the drug administered was a barbituric acid sleeping pill with a sedative effect etc. I understand.
Since this sleeping pill can cause death if taken in large amounts, the same type of drug is used in some countries overseas where euthanasia is permitted, but in Japan it is classified as a psychotropic drug and is marketed. That is not.
On the other hand, the woman was unable to eat by mouth, so police are investigating that the two doctors had given the drug from a "stomach wax" that feeds the stomach directly to the stomach.