Police are investigating a series of deaths at an Oregon hospital reportedly caused by infections from tap water injections in lieu of fentanyl.

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.

    • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
      202·
      11 months ago

      It’s not even that. They are already in the building. I am just asking them to go and work on a different unit that had two people call out 15 minutes before shift start. I literally had a nurse look at me and say “I’m too valuable to be disrespected like that. If you don’t start treating me right, I’m walking out that same door I came in.” This was after I asked her to go do the exact same job she was doing on an adjacent unit where she didn’t like one of the aids there.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      82·
      11 months ago

      No. Working in the medical field shouldn’t mean having a destroyed personal life better fucking healthxare insurance complex refuses to train and retain more workers. Tell you what, the day I get to call up the CEO of Aetna or some other heakth insurance company and tell him he has to report to duty is the day you can demand thee same from nurses.

    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
      3·
      11 months ago

      Your hypothetical does not accurately reflect anything about how the healthcare system works.

      No transplant surgeon is getting a surprise shift. This is exactly why on-call shifts exist. There is already someone available who knows they need to be ready to go at a moment’s notice.

      And nurses don’t function the same as doctors. We are regular wage employees, just like anyone working retail. We absolutely do not have to be available whenever and wherever. They can (and do, constantly) ask us to pick up shifts. But we’re not obligated to come in on our scheduled days off.

      Healthcare corporations need to get their fucking staffing models together.