Vietnam nurse admits killing newborns

From Bangkok Post

Hanoi — A nurse at a hospital in central Vietnam admitted killing three newborn babies by injecting them with anaesthetic instead of a hepatitis B vaccine in error, police said on Wednesday, in a case that sparked public outrage.

Nurse in Vietnam admits killing newborns with wrong injection. Photo from Africa News Network.

Nguyen Thi Thuan, a nurse at Huong Hoa District General Hospital in Quang Tri province, was charged with “accidentally causing human death due to a breach of professional or administrative regulations,” provincial police spokesman Nguyen Van Loi said.

After her arrest last week, Ms Thuan admitted injecting Esmeron, a medicine commonly used as a general anaesthetic.

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