MAFIA bosses took over a city centre hospital and used it as a base to run a crime empire for years, police say.

Mobsters held meetings in wards, used ambulances to distribute drugs, and raided medical supplies to make “murder kits” for hitmen.

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Salavtore Esposito as mob boss Genny Savastano in GamorrahCredit: �2017 Beta Film

They ran accident insurance scams at San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Naples, Italy, damaging cars to provide evidence of “injury” crashes”.

Gangsters fast-tracked patients, for a price, and controlled its cafe and cleaning service.

The scale of the operation emerged when police issued a 481-page warrant — after a turncoat told them “90 per cent of the hospital was corrupt”.

In a raid, they held 11 members of the Contini clan from Naples’ Camorra mafia.

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They featured in hit TV series Gamorrah, with Salvatore Esposito as mob boss Genny Savastano.

Leader Paolo di Mauro was nicknamed “The Nurse” after flooding the 156-bed facility with cronies.

MP Francesco Emilio Borrelli said: “He never showed up for work, but drew a salary.

“When he died, posters mourning him went up at the hospital.”

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