Patients' death linked to saline
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July 17, 2011, Sunday
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BRITISH police are investigating whether three hospital patients died as a result of receiving saline solution contaminated with insulin.
Detectives were hunting for the person who tampered with a batch of saline at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, northwest England. The contamination was discovered earlier this week after a nurse reported a higher-than-normal number of patients with unexplained low blood sugar levels.
Detectives are awaiting post-mortem results to determine whether three patients - a 44-year-old woman and two men aged 71 and 84 - died as a result of the contamination.
Eleven other patients who received the contaminated saline were mildly affected.
"(The investigation) is at a very early stage and we don't know what effect, if any, the solution has had to the well-being of any patients," Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney said yesterday. "That said, we have someone deliberately contaminating saline in the one place that people should feel they are being most cared for."
Detectives were hunting for the person who tampered with a batch of saline at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, northwest England. The contamination was discovered earlier this week after a nurse reported a higher-than-normal number of patients with unexplained low blood sugar levels.
Detectives are awaiting post-mortem results to determine whether three patients - a 44-year-old woman and two men aged 71 and 84 - died as a result of the contamination.
Eleven other patients who received the contaminated saline were mildly affected.
"(The investigation) is at a very early stage and we don't know what effect, if any, the solution has had to the well-being of any patients," Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney said yesterday. "That said, we have someone deliberately contaminating saline in the one place that people should feel they are being most cared for."
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