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SUWON -- Prosecutors in Suwon have arrested two hospital heads for habitual use of controlled painkillers and tranquilizers. The pair were a 51-year-old who ran a hospital in Suwon identified as A, and a 43-year-old from a hospital in Gunpo identified as B.
An orthopedist, A told nurses at his hospital to administer to him the painkiller pethidine hydrochloride and the tranquilizer diazepam on 96 occasion between May 2002 and September 2004, prosecutors said. The doctor performed 120 surgical operations on the days he took the drugs, including a July 2003 operation on a day when he took them three times.
B, a surgeon, is suspected of taking diazepam and Lorazepam 26 times between May 2003 and September 2004, again with the help of nurses at his hospital.
The drugs can cause sleepiness, slowed respiration and possible convulsions if taken habitually in the case of pethidine hydrochloride and hallucinations in the case of diazepam and lorazepam.
Prosecutors said the two doctors filled out false prescriptions for patients to conceal their abuse of the substances.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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