New Delhi, May 29 -- You trust doctors to save lives - but what happens when they're the ones deciding who lives or dies? A deeply disturbing case has surfaced from Latur district in Maharashtra, where police are investigating a senior doctor at a government hospital for allegedly instructing a colleague to "kill" a Covid-19 patient during the peak of the 2021 pandemic. During the 2021 pandemic time, hospitals were crowded with patients and resources were scarce.

An audio clip recently surfaced on social media of the purported conversation between the accused, Dr Shashikant Deshpande, who was then additional district surgeon at the Udgir Government Hospital in Latur, and Dr Shashikant Dange, who was posted at a Covvid-19 care centre.

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