Doctors admit euthanasia being applied in Czech hospitals

Some doctors admit that euthanasia is being applied in the Czech Republic not to prolong patients' sufferings in hopeless cases, though it is officially illegal. It is called "wild euthanasia" and it means that doctors intentionally provide the treatment that leads to the patient's death with the aim to terminate his/her suffering. Being asked at a recent meeting of the Czech Doctors' Academy whether someone is convinced that euthanasia is not applied in the Czech Republic, no doctor raised his hand. Many doctors say the rules should be specified for the cases of patients whose further medical treatment is pointless and whose death is inevitable. Ceske Noviny