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Article: Date-rape drugs stolen at hospital
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 2, 2008
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AN inquiry has been launched into the alleged theft of drugs from
a Yorkshire hospital which can be used for date rape.
It is suspected that large quantities of the short-acting,
powerful sedative midazolam were stolen by a member of staff working
in the Women and Children's Hospital at Hull Royal Infirmary.
The trust denied the member of staff - believed to be a senior
nurse - had been suspended, although they were no longer thought to
be working in the same unit.
Colleagues have apparently threatened to quit if the member of
staff returns.
Mike Wright, director of nursing at Hull and East Yorkshire
Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "The trust, in conjunction ...