Virginia Soares de Souza was arrested last month after a number of terminally ill patients were found to have died prematurely while under her watch in the Hospital Evangelico in Curitiba, south Brazil.
De Souza is accused of administering fatal doses of drugs or reducing the amount of oxygen given to patients in the hospital's intensive care ward.
The doctor was initially charged with involvement in the deaths of seven patients.
But an inquiry by Brazil's Health Ministry has already increased that number to 20 with around 300 other suspicious deaths at the hospital still under investigation, it was revealed today.
Dr Mario Lobato, leading the investigation, told Brazil's Fantastico TV programme his team had analysed patient deaths overseen by De Souza over the last seven years.
He said De Souza 'played God' by deciding which patients should die in order to free up beds in the ward.
He said: 'There are 20 cases which have already been closed, and we have nearly 300 cases still open which we are looking at.
Source: Daily mail
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