Two nurses arrested for administering wrong drug to patient

[Intime News]

Two nurses working astatine the nationalist Attikon University General Hospital successful Athens were arrested connected Monday aft they administered the wrong cause to a 22-year-old diligent who suffered a superior allergic reaction.

According to the Police, the incidental occurred astatine the hospital’s short-term hospitalization unit connected Sunday night. The two nurses connected work allegedly gave the diligent an antibiotic that she should not person received. They were arrested aboriginal Monday greeting for negligent bodily harm and were aboriginal released connected a prosecutor’s bid pending an investigation.

A forensic introspection was besides ordered to find the 22-year-old’s patient’s health. The infirmary has yet to contented a statement.

The incidental is the third known mistake made successful a Greek infirmary this year. In September, three aesculapian staff members astatine a backstage infirmary were taken into custody aft administering a humor transfusion with the wrong humor type to a 67-year-old patient, while past June a akin transfusion mistake astatine Tzaneio Hospital successful Piraeus resulted successful the decease of a 62-year-old woman.