Samoan Nurse

Samoan nurse still employed despite injection mishap

TV1Samoa reports the revelation was made at a coronial inquest into the 2019 deaths of 23 year-old Victoria Samuelu and her baby.

According to the report, Coroner and District Court Judge Alalatoa Rosella Papalii was ''surprised and shocked'' that the nurse, Mele Leilua, was still employed at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital.

Leilua, who was on duty the night Victoria Samuelu died, admitted at the inquest that she had injected the wrong medicine into the deceased's intravenous drip.