Nurse held over patient's death after allegedly injecting stool into IV

A nurse was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering an elderly patient by allegedly injecting excrement into his intravenous tube during a night shift at a hospital near Tokyo, police said. Miyuki Furukawa, 51, who was working at the Chiba Prefecture hospital where 75-year-old Eiji Aita died, has denied the allegation, according to the police. The police allege that at around 3:55 a.m. on Jan. 30, Furukawa injected excrement into Aita’s intravenous tube. He died of multiple organ failure at around 10:30 p.m. the following day. READ: Nurse kills 38 patients because they’re ‘annoying’ The case came to light after […]... Keep on reading: Nurse held over patient's death after allegedly injecting stool into IV