Police Investigate Woman’s Death After ‘Injection’

The case file of a nurse who allegedly administered an injection to a woman, allegedly causing her death has been forwarded to the director of crime investigation department for further direction. The alleged incident took place in Taveuni.

This was confirmed by the Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro yesterday. The complainant was Mohammed Sarif, a 41-year-old market vendor in Labasa.

He claimed his wife, Shereen Buksh left Labasa to attend a birthday celebration at Burotu, Taveuni on November 19, 2021.

“When she informed her parents that she was having a fever on November 22, they called a nurse who is like a family friend to help her get better,” Mr Sarif said. “According to my 11-year-old son, he saw how the nurse came home to give an injection in presence of the grandparents and later Shereen got admitted on Taveuni Island.”

From there she was transferred to Labasa Hospital where she died after a few days.

Mr Sarif said he had lodged the report with the Labasa Police on November 29.

“I had even attended a meeting with the director of CID and divisional Police Commander Northern at Police headquarters in Labasa on February 10,” the father of one child said.

“He has assured that they will carry out an investigation and let me know of the result.”

Meanwhile, the acting divisional medical officer Northern, Dr Tiko Saumalua said they had received a letter from the nurse who claimed that the allegation was false.

He added the feedback received from Taveuni was that the nurse was on his day off from work on that particular day. And no other health staff was aware of or witnessed what happened as it occurred outside the work environment.

“We had advised the complainant to address his complaint to Police as they will be best to interview those that witnessed what happened,” Dr Saumalua said.

Feedback:  shratikan@fijisun.com.fj