Ayumi Kuboki (31), found one of her duties to be unbearably unpleasant:
announcing to family members the death of an elderly patient. She found a
solution to her problem: setting up a poison regime that would kill the patient
during a scheduled shift of another nurse, causing the responsibility for the
family meeting to fall on a colleague.
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EXCERPT: Ayumi Kuboki (31), admitted to poisoning dozens of
patients because she wanted to avoid the “troublesome” situation of having to
explain their deaths to bereaved relatives. She was arrested in Yokohama, Japan
on July 7 over the suspicious death of an 88-year-old patient in her care,
whose blood was found to contain high concentrations of a common antiseptic. Police
said the nurse confessed to poisoning not just Sozo Nishikawa, 88, but also
many others over a period of around two months in the autumn of 2016.
“I also administered
antiseptic solution with other patients,” Ms Kuboki was quoted as saying by the
Asahi Shimbun newspaper. “I did that to about 20 patients.” During questioning,
Ms Kuboki reportedly told police that she only targeted seriously ill patients
who she believed would die during her shift.
[Adam Withnall, “Japanese nurse 'poisoned patients' so they
would die when she was not on shift
Ayumi Kuboki says she found task of dealing with
bereaved relatives 'troublesome',” Independent, Jul. 11, 2018]
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Ayumi
Kuboki, 31.[ Kuboki Ayumi : 窪木あゆみ ]
CHRONOLOGY
2008 – Ayumi Kuboki, nursing license.
Mid-2015 until early 2017 – Oguchi Hospital (renamed
Yokohama Hajime Hospital)
July and Sept 20, 2016 – 48 patients died at the hospital,
including five patients on a single day in late August and four on one day in
early September
Aug. 2016 – A series of disturbing incidents were then reported
on the fourth floor where she worked in 2016, where nurses’ uniforms were
ripped and drinks were spiked with a foreign substance.
The incidents stopped around August 2016, before the first deaths happened.
The incidents stopped around August 2016, before the first deaths happened.
Sep. 16, 2016 – Asae Okitsu, 78.
Sep. 2016 – Sozo Nishikawa, 88.
Sep. 2016 – Nobuo Yamaki, 88.
2016 – Kuboki (29) had, in interviews with various domestic
media outlets in 2016, protested her innocence and insisted she was not
involved in the "heinous" crime.
July 7, 2018 – Kuboki (31) arrested.
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For more cases, see Sicko Nurses
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