Nurse in Her 40s Found Dead With 7-Year-Old Son After Taking Hospital Medication in Jeju

In Jeju, a woman in her 40s injected her son with medication she had taken from the hospital where she worked, causing his death, before taking her own life.

According to the Jeju Dongbu Police Station on September 10, at around 7:38 a.m. on September 9, a woman in her 40s and her 7-year-old son were found dead in a house in Samdo-dong, Jeju City. The woman was the head nurse at a hospital in Jeju. Police suspect that, as she had been suffering from depression, she took medication from the hospital and administered it to both her son and herself before ending her own life.

The drug used in the incident is a lethal substance that can cause cardiac arrest if injected intravenously, but it is not classified as a narcotic and is therefore left unregulated.

Police investigations found no evidence of financial hardship, family discord, or child abuse. Authorities plan to determine the exact cause of death through autopsies and to investigate whether there was any illegality in the process of removing the medication from the hospital.

Previously, in January of last year, a nurse at a general hospital in North Jeolla Province died after injecting herself with the same medication. In February of the same year, the director of a nursing hospital in Seoul was also referred for prosecution on charges of administering this drug to a patient, resulting in death.

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