A doctor accused of killing patients to free up hospital beds could be to blame for more than 300 deaths in Curitiba, Brazil.
在巴西庫里提巴市，一名醫(yī)生因為涉嫌謀殺300多名病人而被逮捕，而她的殺人動機只是為了給醫(yī)院騰出病床床位。

Virginia Soares de Souza is said to have “played God,” administering fatal doses of a muscle relaxant or cutting off patients’ life support.
這名醫(yī)生名叫維吉尼亞·索爾斯·德蘇扎，她擅自“扮演上帝角色”決定病人的生死，為病人注射致命過量的肌肉松弛劑，或切斷病人的生命支持裝置。

If confirmed it would mean she would have claimed even more victims than Hyde GP Harold Shipman, who killed at least 215 patients before he hanged himself in 2004.
如果謀殺罪名成立，證實德蘇扎的確害死了300多名病人，那她將超過臭名昭著的英國“死亡醫(yī)生” 哈羅德·希普曼的殺人記錄。希普曼殺害了至少215名病人，2004年在監(jiān)獄自縊身亡。

De Souza, who worked at Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil, was initially accused over the deaths of seven patients.
德蘇扎在巴西南部城市庫里提巴市的Evangelico 醫(yī)院工作，最初被捕是因為有指控她造成了7名病人死亡。

But the number soared as checks were made on those who had died in her care over the last seven years.
但隨著調(diào)查的深入，在過去的七年里由她負(fù)責(zé)的病人死亡數(shù)據(jù)不斷增加。

Investigator Dr Mario Lobato said: “We are looking at nearly 300 cases. In one a patient asked a nurse for a cup of water, yet by the time she returned he had died.”
負(fù)責(zé)調(diào)查此案的馬里奧·羅巴托表示：“我們發(fā)現(xiàn)大概有300多例病人受害。” 在一個案例中，病人要求護(hù)士給杯水，但等到護(hù)士返回時病人已經(jīng)死了。”