Nurse in ventilator accident Nurse in ventilator accident
By Michaela P. del Callar 10/30/2010The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has confirmed that the female nurse caught on video accidentally turning off a ventilator that left her paralyzed patient brain-damaged last year is a Filipina.
Foreign Affairs spokes-man Eduardo Malaya identified the Filipina as Violeta Aylward, 55, whose license was suspended in October 2009 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the British government’s regulatory board, following the incident.
A formal hearing of the case has yet to take place.
Malaya said the matter has been the subject of investigation by the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, which did not find sufficient basis to file a criminal case against the Filipina, who was found turning off the life support system of 37-year-old Jamie Merrett on CCTV.
Merrett became paralyzed from the neck down after a 2002 car accident..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101030hed6.html
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