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NextImg:Biden Commuted Sentence of Doctor Who Infected Cancer Patients

Just when you think Biden’s round of pardons and sentence commutations got as bad as possible

A federal judge sentenced Dr. Meera Sachdeva, a south Mississippi oncologist, to the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after her conviction in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving chemotherapy drugs.

Prosecutors said Sachdeva allowed technicians at the cancer center to perform bone marrow biopsies, reuse syringes and use Chemotherapy treatments after their expiration date.

“It was impossible for us to determine, after the fact, whether any particular patient received an adequate amount of chemotherapy treatment, an inadequate amount, or an excessive amount,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Scott Gilbert.

Patients may have died as a result.

Prosecutors the clinic was unsanitary for cancer patients, because several cancer sufferers were admitted to the hospital with infections. One doctor who testified in the trial said an infection was a contributing factor to the death of one patient.

A number of the 50 former patients of the clinic, whose records have come in to question or were illegally changed, were in the courtroom. Several family members representing their deceased loved one were also in attendance.

“My sister meant a lot to my family because she had a hand in raising us. So, I’m hurt over that, but I have some closure to the fact that now I know some justice is done,” said Rosetta Chairs.

Chairs mentally challenged sister received treatment at Rose Cancer Center and later died.

Earnest Whittington’s wife died after being diagnosed with cancer. She also received treatment under the care of Sachdeva. He isn’t sure if cancer treatments lead to her death but Whittington was happy with the outcome of the trial.

At least one patient sued claiming that he received HIV and died as a result of the clinic’s reuse of needles.

Mississippi health officials say none of the nearly 300 cancer patients they tested from a defunct clinic have contracted viral blood infections such as HIV because of care at the facility, which is suspected of diluting chemotherapy drugs and using old needles.

The Mississippi Health Department closed Rose Cancer Center in Summit in July because of “unsafe infection control practices” after 11 patients were hospitalized with the same bacterial infection.

The lawsuit claims James Ralph Patterson Sr. went to the now-shuttered clinic for treatment of his brain and lung cancer but ended up getting watered-down drugs and was infected with HIV by an old needle. Patterson died July 3 at the age of 61.

When Dr. Sachdeva was sent to prison, patients were hoping for justice.

One of her patients, 76-year-old Wayne Spring, watched intently and left the court disappointed. He told The Associated Press that he contracted two bacterial infections from the clinic and now has regular tests for HIV and hepatitis. He beat cancer, but the ordeal left him shaken.

“She liked to have killed me,” Spring said. “I’m disappointed in the whole thing.”

Spring’s son, Kirk, wanted Sachdeva to admit to the more serious allegations and was disappointed most of the charges were dropped.

“She’s going to pay her due. No matter what happens in here, she will pay her due one day,” he said just outside the courtroom.

Not on Biden’s watch. Biden commuted her sentence. Remember how often we’ve been told Biden was a decent man?

A decent man would not have done this. Only a corrupt monster would.