Laurent Simons successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Physics at the University of Antwerp, aiming to replace body parts with machines to achieve eternal life.
A two-year-old boy was prescribed 1,5 mmol of potassium phosphate, but a doctor removed the decimal point when entering the prescription into the computer, causing the patient to receive ten times the dosage and die.
Doctor Ha Huy Dung and two colleagues accepted money to allow 16 inmates and defendants undergoing mandatory treatment at Central Psychiatric Hospital 1 to leave the facility; some of whom committed additional crimes.