Inside sources within Asante have since disclosed details surrounding the reported deaths, per NBC5 News. It is alleged that up to 10 patients died of infections contracted at the hospital.
The sources claim the infections were caused by a nurse who purportedly substituted medication with tap water.
It is alleged that the nurse was attempting to conceal the misuse of the hospital’s pain medication supply — specifically fentanyl — and intensive care unit patients were injected with tap water, causing infections that resulted in fatalities.
Medford police have confirmed their active investigation into the situation at the hospital but have refrained from providing specific details.
The sources indicate that the unsterile tap water led to pseudomonas, a dangerous infection, especially for individuals in poor health, commonly found in a hospital’s ICU.
It unfathomably amazes me that someone intelligent and dedicated enough to get a nursing license was so stupid they didn’t know to use something sterilized to replace it with. Drugged up Addict or not.
That’s literally what addiction does to people. It makes them unrecognizable. That doesn’t excuse it, but it’s just the way addiction works. So many comments deriding this person’s intelligence when it has zero to do with that.
This is why addiction treatment and social services are so shitty in the US. People are so ready to insult others before trying to understand them, yet the solution to things like this require exactly that understanding. It’s like homelessness and NIMBYs. If they’re so concerned about the homeless encroaching on their property values, then they should take action to reduce its causes. But instead they’d rather blame, shame, and…expect them to disappear into thin air apparently.