Friday, Feb 03, 2012
The New Paper
By Shaffiq Alkhatib
She died of a prescription drug overdose at a nursing home.
But how exactly?
................Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid said yesterday that record-keeping at the home was "below par"..........
evidence given by the nursing home officers did not tally with the records............Tan Suat Cheng, 78, a resident at the Simei branch of Orange Valley Nursing Home, was prescribed fluoxetine................
Dr George Paul,.....said there was documented evidence of overdosing...............
The court heard that Madam Tan was supposed to be given the drug once a day every morning............... on the records, it appeared that a nurse at the home gave Madam Tan the drug once around 8am and then again at 6pm on April 9, 2009, a Thursday.
The nurse,
Ms Maria Victoria Acijalado Calub, explained that this was because she had signed in a wrong column on the medication chart.......
The next day, another nurse, Ms
Diadema Onatec Pacheco, said that she had inked her initials in the wrong columns on the medication chart.
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The spokesman added:
None of the staff members left their jobs because of the incident. ...........
http://www.yourhealth.com.sg/print/content/experts-disagree-drug-overdose-case