Doctor convicted of deliberately infecting patients with Hepatitis C
Be'er Sheva court convicts doctor of 25 counts of causing grievous bodily harm, intentionally spreading disease.
By Mijal GrinbergThe Be'er Sheva District Court on Tuesday convicted Dr. Sergei Puntos of 25 counts of causing grievous bodily harm, intentionally spreading a disease, and possession and use of narcotics.
Puntos, who worked as an anesthesiologist at Be'er Sheva's Soroka Hospital, was accused of infecting 31 of his patients with hepatitis C by injecting them with sedatives using a syringe that he had used to inject himself with narcotics.
Puntos was acquitted of aggravated assault.
"I rule that the prosecution adequately proved that the defendant committed all of the crimes of which he was accused, in addition to the 25 counts of causing grievous bodily harm," wrote the judge.
In addition, Puntos was convicted of stealing from an employee, fraud and negligence.
Following his first indictment, Puntos was released to full house arrest on condition that he refrains from contacting his former patients and other Soroka employees.
According to a later indictment, following his release, Dr. Puntos contacted a fellow Soroka doctor who was to be summoned as a key witness in the case and threatened him, telling him that "You will see what it means to testify against me. "
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...None-Jews who infiltrated Israel. I have been warning for a long time that None-Jews - including partial Jews regardless of whether the None-Jewish element is on the paternal or maternal side - pose a great security risk to Israel. They are a fifth column. The real culprit here is not this one particular low-life. It is all those Israeli leaders who allowed them to come to Israel.
This doctor should have his license lifted for life. Under no circumstances should he ever be allowed to have contact with patients again.He should be required to undergo psychiatric treatment. If he emigrates from Israel, his passport should be stamped to indicate what he did so no one else anywhere else should suffer from this madman. I am an anesthesiologist. Such behavior is unworthy of any physician anywhere in the world.
You are racist, don't you? So, you might need to be killed. Joke. I can suggest you list of dozens of Israeli doctors of different origination including South Africa, Romania, Argentina, Israel and Russia, who, from my experience and experience of my relatives, successfully demonstrated their love to money, lack of any principles, indifference to suffering people and they succeded to do serious mistakes. With stupid "agressivity", I was suggested by cardiologist to check by myself in the Internet what does my diagnosis mean. This (non-Russian:-() "doctor" working in Raanana assigned me, without any comments, explanations and further recomendations, the diagnosis with survival of 50% after three years and after 4-5 years... I was supposed to clarify it by myself in Internet. He was not only stupid in what he did. He was totally wrong. Kind of "professional"
Are you seriously advocating that all the world's Jews go back to Israel and that all the Arabs currently in what was ancient Israel and Judia go back to Arabia Felix?
THIS IS TERRIBLE FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE INFECTED...YIKES! HATE TO THINK OF THE LAWSUIT
to the "religion of peace" and join his own in London.
Just the right combination of medical ethics required by the English medical system. He should be sent to London immediately
that is a good start to solve the middle east problem.
You need a body guard in Israeli hospitals, i onece needed an ultrasound and a crazy russian medica almost killed me with the probe,
After time in prision, send him back to where he came from.