Jail terms over amputations

THREE Italian surgeons were jailed yesterday for carrying out unnecessary operations, including amputations, to make money from the state health system.

A court in Milan was told they operated more than 80 times just for personal gain.

The chief surgeon, Pier Apollo Berg Mason, received the stiffest sentence of 15½ years. He was accused of “causing pain through unnecessary surgery” with the sole aim of “professional and economic gain”.