A doctor and former ward chief at
one of Milan's top hospitals on Monday got six and a half years
in jail for corruption.
Norberto Confalonieri was convicted of illegally sponsoring
prosthetic equipment in exchange for money.
He was acquitted of injuring two patients.
The surgeon was arrested in March 2017 for allegedly breaking a
91-year-old woman's femur so as to try out a "bikini-style"
operation to "train myself", according to a wiretap.
But Confalonieri, orthopaedics chief at the Gaetano Pini
Hospital, was cleared of bodily harm while being found guilty of
bid-rigging and corruption.
According to the incriminating wiretap which was found to be
insufficient evidence, Confalonieri said of the woman "I didn't
put stitches in, I put in a zip so I can open her up again".
The alleged 'training operation' on the elderly woman gained
headlines in Italy.
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