Lucy Letby trial: Staffing levels were unsafe, nurse tells jury

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Staffing levels on hospital's neonatal ward were 'completely unsafe', murder-accused nurse tells jury

Lucy Letby has denied murdering and attempting to murder babies at the Countess of Chester HospitalNurse Lucy Letby believed staffing levels on a hospital's neonatal unit were "completely unsafe", her murder trial has heard.She is on trial accused of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

The court previously heard how the baby boy's heart rate soared and his blood sugar dropped to a dangerously low level after the prescribed bag was connected to an intravenous line after midnight on 5 August 2015. Mr Myers went on to ask Ms Letby why she searched for the mother of Child F nine times on Facebook between August 2015 and January 2016, and the father on one occasion.

The court has heard that in mid-August, she was transferred from Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital and was "clinically stable" until 7 September, when she projectile vomited at about 02:00 BST.Prosecutors allege Ms Letby overfed Child G with milk through a nasogastric tube or injected air into the same tube and made two more attempts to kill her on 21 September.

 

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