6 doctors referred to prosecutors over 2014 toddler death

Police referred six doctors to prosecutors on Wednesday over their alleged negligence resulting in the death of a 2-year-old boy at a Tokyo hospital in 2014.The anesthesiologists, including a 60-year-old former associate professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, are suspected of administering an excessive dose of the sedative propofol after the boy underwent neck surgery on Feb. 18, 2014, according to investigative sources.The toddler, only identified by his first name Kosuke, was artificially ventilated in an intensive care unit at the hospital in the capital's Shinjuku Ward,…READ FULL ARTICLE