A hospice patient died in agony after «nurse stole morphine, to make him the most»

A former hospice nurse accused of it by any means to produce their own morphine designed for veterans at the medical center of the Ministry of veterans Affairs United States Bedford, Massachusetts, said on Wednesday Federal prosecutors.

Caitlin Noftl (55 years) from Tewkesbury was arrested on Wednesday morning. She charged in Boston Federal court to one count of receipt are not subject to free circulation of substances by misrepresentation, fraud, deception and various tricks, and one count of forgery of a substance, according to information from the U.S. attorney’s office of Massachusetts.

According to the indictment documents, Caitlin in 2017, used his position to get a dose of morphine that was intended for veterans who were under her care at the hospice, said the U.S. attorney’s office.

«Noftl admitted to Federal agents that she mixed the water from the tap with part of the dose of liquid morphine and then were given diluted medication to patients,» the statement said. «Then Noftl presumably she took diluted the remaining part of the drug».

Investigators also found that Noftl already retired from another hospital «after she failed to follow required procedures, the wasted drug in 60 cases,» said Federal prosecutors.

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The representative of the U.S. attorney’s office said «the Investigation showed that because of diluted morphine, which gave the patient Noftl, one veteran felt great difficulty breathing and suffered greatly in his last days.»

The nurse was caught after colleagues noticed the syringes were not in place, and that morphine was an unusual blue color.

In his statement, Joan Clifford, Director of the veterans hospital in Bedford Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, stated that Noftl more they did not work, according to WFXT. «These suspicions are contrary to our values, so we fired this person and reported her behavior to the independent inspector of the Department of veterans Affairs United States,» — said in a statement, Clifford.

The representative of the Ministry of veterans Affairs the US has not provided its review in this case.

Phone calls Wednesday Noftl didn’t answer. She appeared in Federal court in Boston on Wednesday, and was assigned a lawyer. A hearing on the reasonable suspicion is scheduled for October 16. If a woman is found guilty, she faces up to 14 years in prison.

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