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A German anaesthesiologist has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for injecting children at a dental practice with a contaminated anaesthetic. The court in Frankfurt ruled on Friday that the 67-year-old doctor acted recklessly when he committed numerous hygiene errors, although the judge said he did not intend to kill the children. In September 2021, the man had injected a total of four children with contaminated anaesthetic in a dental practice in the town of Kronberg, just outside Frankfurt. The young patients suffered blood poisoning, and a four-ye…