Row over mercy killing hospital

A row over health care has erupted in Hungary after a hospital nurse admitted she administered lethal drugs to patients on her ward.

The twenty-four-year-old unidentified nurse, who's known as the black angel, is accused of killing twenty-one terminally-ill patients in her care.

Hospital managers say chronic staff shortages caused by poor funding left them no choice but to leave the nurse unsupervised, caring for forty patients at a time.

The government has blamed poor management at the hospital.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service