Fake doctor and nurse sentenced

Bratislava I District Court on Thursday handed down sentences to two individuals who prescribed and administered medicines and drugs to clients of a care facility for the elderly despite lacking the professional competence to do so. Three people died as a result of this misbehaviour. The fake doctor Ivan Bihary received an aggregate sentence of nine years for causing health-related harm and for the criminal transmission of HIV, as he concealed from his sexual partners that he is HIV positive. Meanwhile, fake nurse Vanessa Putikova received a three-year suspended sentence with a probationary period of five years. Pleading guilty in 2019, the woman claimed that the decision to administer medications to the facility's clients was made by her partner in crime. Moreover, she testified that Bihary regularly brought to the care home other individuals who were neither employed nor resident there. Last but not least, she also confessed that she, Bihary and other unauthorised individuals consumed drugs and alcohol in the facility.
 
Source: TASR