Infant

Health care workers continued to deliver testimonies on the second day of a landmark trial closely followed across Türkiye, with their statements lying bare the harrowing extent of a social security fraud scheme that allegedly led to the deaths of 10 newborns.

Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among 47 people on trial accused of causing the deaths of 10 infants as part of an alleged scheme to defraud Turkey's social security system.

Kostas Giannopoulos from “The Smile of the Child” spoke about his communication with the 24-year-old woman from Amaliada, who was present during the deaths of four infants—two of whom were he

A prosecutor in Patra has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into the deaths of three infants in the Achaia and Ilia regional units in the western Peloponnese.

It is understood that the mothers of the dead infants live in the same house.

The prosecutor has sought over 500 years in prison for the ringleaders of a criminal syndicate in Istanbul, accused of unnecessarily placing newborns in intensive care units for financial gain, resulting in several infant deaths.

The investigation into the gang, first revealed in May, has concluded, and the Büyükçekmece Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has finalized the indictment.

A police report has been filed against 47 individuals, including 22 currently in custody, for conspiring with employees of the 112 Emergency Call Center in Istanbul.

The suspects, which include doctors and nurses, are accused of referring infant emergency patients to private hospitals in exchange for financial gains.

Two children, who were infected with salmonella, are being treated at the Children’s ICU of the University General Hospital of Heraklion.

According to Radio Crete, the supervisor of Public Health of the Region of Crete, Antonis Papadakis said the first case involves an infant just 5 months old and the other a 10-year-old child.

The 24-year-old mother, whose infant was discovered deceased in a landfill in the Attica district of Vravrona, has been discharged from the hospital and brought before a prosecutor and was granted until Thursday to provide her statement.

Both parents are accused of joint accomplished manslaughter. 

The Nepalese parents of an infant that was found dead in a bag in a landfill in Vravrona in eastern Attica by police on Friday will appear before an investigative magistrate on Tuesday, accused of manslaughter in the first degree.

The body of the dead infant is scheduled for examination by a coroner on Monday.

The images show the man holding two bags in his left hand, one of which contains the dead infant