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Thief hits hospital crash carts
Healthcare Security Weekly, January 8, 2007
A man stole 30 vials of eight different drugs from "crash carts" at Toronto General Hospital on January 1, reported the Toronto Sun.
A man with no connection to any patients was seen on two floors of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre when the vials of intravenous drugs were stolen from crash carts used to save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest.
Several of the drugs if taken in combination could be lethal, the hospital pharmacy manager told the newspaper. "I don't know why someone would take these drugs. They're not narcotics," she said. The thief broke a twist-tie seal and lifted the glass vials. This is the first time since the crash carts were introduced a year ago that there's been a theft, the hospital security director said.
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