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<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Japanese nurse &#8216;poisoned 20 patients who were close to death to make sure they died when she was off-duty so she didn&#8217;t have to break the news to their families&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Ayumi Kuboki, 31, arrested by police last week for allegedly poisoning patients</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">She was questioned in June over the suspicious deaths of four elderly people</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">During questioning she allegedly admitted to poisoning up to 20 people </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Kuboki told police she wanted the patients to die on another nurse&#8217;s shift so that she wouldn&#8217;t have to explain the deaths to their families</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Cops began investigating after another nurse spotted bubbles inside the IV drip bag of 88-year-old patient Nobuo Yamaki </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">After Yamaki he died in September 2016, doctors determined that he had died from poisoning after finding a high concentration of antiseptic solution in his bloodstream The same</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"> The chemical was found injected into more unused saline IV solutions and on the uniform of just one staff, nurse Kubok<strong>i</strong></span></h6>
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<strong>&#8216;Killer Nurse&#8217; Ayumi Kuboki, admitted to fatally poisoning 20 patients at Oguchi Hospital, near Tokyo, Japan. She told interviewers she only targeted the terminally ill</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A nurse in Japan has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning up to 20 patients so they wouldn&#8217;t die on her shift.<br />
Ayumi Kuboki, 31, allegedly poisoned the elderly people by injecting their IV drips with antiseptic solution at Oguchi Hospital, around 20 miles south of Tokyo, in 2016.<br />
Kuboki told police that she hastened the patients&#8217; deaths so that they died on another nurse&#8217;s shift and she didn&#8217;t have to break the news to their families, newspaper <a class="class" href="http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807090048.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Asahi Shimbun</a> reports.<br />
Nurses at Oguchi Hospital are expected to break the news to families if patients die while they are on duty.<br />
&#8216;It would be troublesome if that responsibility fell on me,&#8217; Kuboki allegedly told investigators.<br />
Police launched their probe after another nurse spotted bubbles inside the IV drip bag of 88-year-old patient Nobuo Yamaki after he died in September 2016.<br />
Bubbles are an indication that a bag has potentially been tampered with.<br />
Doctors found a high concentration of antiseptic solution in Yamaki&#8217;s bloodstream and determined that he had died from poisoning.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-295992" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ayumi-Kuboki-leaving-police-station-in-Tokyo-1.png" alt="Ayumi Kuboki leaving police station in Tokyo 1.png" width="701" height="445" /><strong>Media try to get shots of Japanese nurse Ayumi Kuboki, {photo] leaves for a prosecutors&#8217; office in a police car in Yokohama’s Naka Ward on July 9. She is facing </strong><strong>allegations that she injected the IV drips of elderly patients with antiseptic solution so they would die on another nurse&#8217;s shift</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Kuboki, 31, was arrested on July 7 on suspicion of killing Sozo Nishikawa, 88, on Sept. 18, 2016, by introducing fatal quantities of harmful chemicals into the patient&#8217;s medication in a short period of time at Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama’s Kanagawa Ward.<br />
Kuboki deliberately it is alleged, injected the IV drips of elderly patients with dense antiseptic solution so they would die on another nurse&#8217;s shift.<br />
Police believe she administered the agent between 3 p.m. and 4:55 p.m. that day, according to the sources. Nishikawa was confirmed dead at 7 p.m.<br />
Kuboki told investigators that she poisoned more patients, including Nobuo Yamaki, 88, who shared a room with Nishikawa at the hospital, and who died two days after Nishikawa.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">An autopsy confirmed the presence the same antiseptic was found in the bloodstream, of both patients, prompting police to open an investigation at the hospital.<br />
The antiseptic was then discovered in the bodies of two further patients, an 89-year-old man and a 78-year-old woman who have not been named.<br />
Police also discovered ten unused intravenous drip bags at the nurses&#8217; station tainted with the antiseptic solution.<br />
Investigators found tiny punctures in the rubber seals of the bags, indicating that the antiseptic had been injected into them.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-295993" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ogumi-Hospital-Tokyo-1.png" alt="Ogumi Hospital, Tokyo 1.png" width="681" height="449" /><strong>The murders happened at Oguchi Hospital [photo], 20 miles south of Tokyo, around September 2016. Nurse Kuboki at the time was working on the fourth floor.</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">When police investigators checked all uniforms worn by nurses in charge of the patients on the fourth floor, they found the antiseptic on only one uniform &#8211; that worn by Kuboki &#8211; around the pocket.<br />
After her arrest, Kuboki allegedly confessed to killing up to 20 patients, but claimed she targeted only the very sick.<br />
However, police have cast doubt on those claims, saying some of the patients who died during that period were not terminally ill.<br />
Kuboki qualified as a nurse in 2008 and began working at Oguchi Hospital in 2015, where she was known as a quiet but competent employee.<br />
A series of disturbing incidents were then reported on the fourth floor where she worked in 2016, where nurses&#8217; uniforms were ripped and drinks were spiked with a foreign substance.<br />
The incidents stopped around August 2016, before the first deaths happened.<br />
Kuboki quit the hospital before she was questioned over the deaths in June, before her arrest on July 7.<br />
Subsequently, police questioned Kuboki in late June, after she quit the hospital. She admitted to the slaying allegations on the second day of questioning, according to the sources.<br />
In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun in December, Kuboki said, “I have worked hard to help patients die in peace, so I was shocked by the incidents.”<br />
She has not yet entered a plea.</p>
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‘Death angel’ Nurse arrested in Tokyo – Ayumi Kuboki, 31, admits she ‘poisoned 20 patients who were close to death to make sure they died when she was off-duty so she didn’t have to break the news to their families’
