A lawyer retained by women who suspect they were improperly given a labour-inducing drug says the number of alleged victims of a Moncton nurse's inappropriate treatment is growing.
The Horizon Health Network has publicly confirmed there were "at least two" pregnant women who had to receive emergency intervention after receiving the drug inappropriately from the registered nurse.
However, John McKiggan, a medical malpractice lawyer based in Halifax, says he and the Moncton firm Fidelis Law are now representing "dozens" of women who suspect they were also treated by the nurse. "It's a terribly dangerous drug and one you have to carefully monitor. And it would be shocking that a nurse could have access to oxytocin without a hospital knowing that, and it being administered without anyone else being aware of it," said McKiggan.
The hospital "should be acknowledging their responsibility for what happened and offering whatever information they can to mothers who were concerned about whether or not they were victimized," he said in an interview. The Moncton Hospital has confirmed that the unidentified nurse had been fired after at least two pregnant women were allegedly given the drug oxytocin inappropriately.
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