IN NEWS, WORLD NEWS / BY AMANDA SHEA / ON OCTOBER 14, 2014 AT 9:41 AM /
Photo from Mad World news website, no attribution
As many as 38 patients cared for by the same nurse at a hospital in northeast Italy may have been killed by the health worker if she found them or their relatives to be annoying.
The nurse, Daniela Poggiali, 42 from Lugo, Italy was taken into custody over the weekend on charges in the death of 78-year-old patient Rosa Calderoni who was killed from an injection of potassium, CBC News reported.
Calderoni’s death came unexpectedly after being admitted to the hospital with a routine illness.
According to the news source, tests showed that Calderoni died with a high amount of potassium — which can provoke cardiac arrest — in her bloodstream. Her unusual passing triggered a full investigation, which reportedly revealed 37 other patients who died mysteriously while under Poggiali’s care.
During a police search of the accused nurse’s cell phone, photos were found of her giving two thumbs up next to a patient who had just passed moments prior to the snapshot…