According to Japanese media reports, at a hospital in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, last year, a homicide occurred.
A 73-year-old man was in the same room as a 59-year-old patient with a toothbrush handle stabbed in the face, and ultimately, the old man was unable to rescue and died. However, in order to shirk its responsibility, the hospital issued a false certificate of "death due to pneumonia".
After a lengthy investigation, the police arrested the then director of the hospital, and the deceased's former attending physician, on suspicion of covering up the crime, and handed them over to the public prosecutor the following day. The two arrested persons are brothers.
The investigation also found that the false death certificate was issued by an 89-year-old doctor who was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a suspected cognitive disorder. It was suspected that the two arrested persons might have used the doctor's name in an attempt to cover up the incident.
A hospital insider who was dissatisfied with the hospital's handling of the case called the police, who investigated and conducted an autopsy on the deceased, confirming the cause of death as "head and face injuries" rather than pneumonia.
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