He turned off another patient’s ventilator because it was too loud – it killed her

A quarrel between two grandmothers in a German hospital ended in an absurd, even bizarre tragedy. A 72-year-old woman, tired of the noise of her roommate’s artificial respirator, He got up from the hospital bed, went to unplug it. The consequence was terrible: the attacked grandmother died.

Hatun C., 72, “felt shocked” by the machine that supplied her roommate Hilal k., 79, with oxygen.

In a press release released jointly by the prosecution and police in Mannheim, Germany, authorities said the woman turned off her respirator before 8:00 pm one night in November.

“Although the suspect was informed by hospital staff that the oxygen supply was a vital measure, she would turn the device off again around 21:00,” the statement read.

Urgently, once again the doctors had to revive the attacked patient, who miraculously saved her life. But later he died of the consequences of oxygen depletion. Both patients were hospitalized for Covid l at Diako Hospital in Mannheim.

“First, the 72-year-old woman allegedly turned off the device at an unspecified time before 8:00 pm after being disturbed by the noise from the oxygen device. Although hospital staff advised the suspect that the oxygen supply was a vital measure, she is said to have turned the device off again at around 9pm,” authorities confirmed.

The attacker allegedly justified himself by saying that the noise generated by that device bothered her. However, she didn’t think about the consequences that might come next. She was arrested and entered prison.

The family of the woman who killed her partner claimed that her grandmother was “drugged” and “confused” by the medical treatment she was receiving and that she never intended to harm herself. Aydin C., her son, said the woman acted “desperately” due to the number of hours she was unable to sleep.

victim and perpetrator

Hatun C. was arrested on manslaughter charges and since then her son has been worried that he will “die in prison”. She claims that her her mother “I had no idea what I was doing.”

“My mother can’t read or write, she only understands Turkish, how could she have understood this announcement from the German nurse?” she wondered. “Besides, he has no idea about cars. Otherwise, he would never have done such a thing.”

Hatun C.’s son also argued that the mother should have been moved to another room and that the next of kin should have been informed of the situation immediately, because in this way the event “it would never have come to this.”

Furthermore, he apologized for his mother’s actions: “I want to apologize for all the suffering my mother caused to the family of the 79-year-old patient. My mother was a victim of these intolerable circumstances in the clinic.”

According to him, Hatun C. “deeply regrets everything and begs forgiveness.” In response, the daughter of the deceased said: “This woman killed my mother. I can’t forgive her for that.”