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Hardeman Wants Probe Into the Ontario College of Nurses

Wednesday, 14 June 2017 13:56

Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman wants to make sure the province never has to undergo another Elizabeth Wettlaufer trial.

The MPP for Oxford County is calling on Health Minister Eric Hoskins to conduct an investigation into Elizabeth Wettlaufer's case.

Wettlaufer pled guilty to eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault on June 1st. She was once fired from a nursing home for inappropriate handling of medication, but was able to get another job at a different nursing home afterwards. Ernie Hardeman says someone dropped the ball.

Here are the main questions Hardeman asks in the letter:
 
How did the deaths of the eight seniors could go unnoticed for so long? Why was Wettlaufer never sanctioned by the Ontario College of Nurses, as reported in the Toronto Star on June 12, 2017?
 
"The college, after all, was informed 30 months earlier that Wettlaufer had been fired from a nursing home for putting the life of a patient at risk. Yet she continued to work — and kill — as a fully licensed registered nurse."
 
And further to that, why were red flags not raised in 2014, as reported in a Global News report on June 1, 2017?

"Wettlaufer also told a lawyer about everything in 2014, who advised her it was in her best interests to stay silent, court heard. The former nurse also told many other friends and acquaintances about killing patients with insulin, some took her seriously and told police, but most didn't tell authorities, or believed she was lying, court heard."

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