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Bit worrying as my little boy was in Penguin/Puffin a couple of weeks ago. Though fortunately didn't need a drip.
POLICE have launched a probe at Basildon Hospital after it was revealed drip bags may have been tampered with.
It is understood around 30 intravenous fluid bags, used to feed patients and administer them drugs, have been punctured.
However police and the hospital remained tightlipped over how the drips may have been tampered with and the exact quantity affected.
Officers were at the hospital yesterday speaking to clinical staff, including nurses, pharmacists and drug technicians.
It is understood some of their enquiries were carried out in the hospital’s Wagtail and Puffin’s children’s ward.
Helen Cook, spokeswoman for Essex Police, said the investigation was in its early stages and police could not be drawn on whether anyone had suffered an injury or illness connected with their enquiries.
She said officers were called to the hospital at 9.30pm on Sunday by medical staff.
Mrs Cook said: “Police were called to the hospital to investigate the possibility that medical equipment had been tampered with.
“Our enquiries are continuing but we are carrying out a thorough investigation and we are not ruling anything in or out.”
POLICE have launched a probe at Basildon Hospital after it was revealed drip bags may have been tampered with.
It is understood around 30 intravenous fluid bags, used to feed patients and administer them drugs, have been punctured.
However police and the hospital remained tightlipped over how the drips may have been tampered with and the exact quantity affected.
Officers were at the hospital yesterday speaking to clinical staff, including nurses, pharmacists and drug technicians.
It is understood some of their enquiries were carried out in the hospital’s Wagtail and Puffin’s children’s ward.
Helen Cook, spokeswoman for Essex Police, said the investigation was in its early stages and police could not be drawn on whether anyone had suffered an injury or illness connected with their enquiries.
She said officers were called to the hospital at 9.30pm on Sunday by medical staff.
Mrs Cook said: “Police were called to the hospital to investigate the possibility that medical equipment had been tampered with.
“Our enquiries are continuing but we are carrying out a thorough investigation and we are not ruling anything in or out.”
