Osaka_RedCross_Hospital-Press_Conference

Osaka Red Cross - Press Conference : March 10, 2000 (March 11, 2000) Police on Saturday raided the Osaka Red Cross Hospital over the death last year of a cancer patient who was accidentally given an incorrect dosage of an anticancer agent. The hospital in Osaka's Tennoji Ward is accused of professional negligence resulting in death. Following the instructions of a 27-year-old male intern who was the patient's attending physician, a nurse administered 80 milligrams of an anticancer agent intravenously to the patient on the morning on Dec. 27 last year, investigators said. By the evening of the same day, the 63-year-old patient was suffering stomach pains, diarrhea and other side affects. He died of multiple organ failure on Jan. 13, the investigators said. The doctor had intended the patient to receive 10 mg of an anticancer agent but accidentally prescribed a different agent and gave incorrect guidance to the nurse on the adequate dosage, the investigators said.

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• ILEA000004193

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• 2000/3/10 00:00:00

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• 2000 Kyodo News

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