New Zealand pays $1000 to doctors who euthanize ‘severely hospitalized’ COVID-19 patients
Nancy Flanders | December 22, 2021 | 06:43amThe New Zealand government has announced that patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 can be killed via euthanasia,
according to Scoop.
In November, anti-euthanasia group #DefendNZ asked the New Zealand Ministry of Health (MOH) questions about the practice of the nation’s
End of Life Choice Act (EOLC Act). One of these questions was, “Could a patient who is severely hospitalised with Covid-19 potentially be eligible for assisted suicide or euthanasia under the Act if a health practitioner viewed their prognosis as less than 6 months?”
The EOLC Act states that a person who has a “terminal illness that is likely to end the person’s life within 6 months” may die by euthanasia. Eligibility for both euthanasia and assisted suicide is determined by the attending medical practitioner and an independent medical practitioner.
Doctors receive a government fee of $1,000 plus expenses for each person they kill through euthanasia.
The MOH confirmed that such patients with COVID could be killed by lethal injection under the new euthanasia law. This includes patients who are considered to be dying from COVID or those who have extreme suffering from its effects. . .
https://www.liveaction.org/news/new-zealand-doctors-euthanize-covid-19-patients/