Following the tragic news of the death of an infant in Australia last week after a faulty gas outlet in a neonatal unit was found to be emitting nitrous oxide (N2O) instead of oxygen (O2), BOC Limited has completed a Factual Investigation Report for Police in New South Wales (NSW).
The wrong gas was dispensed through a neonatal resuscitation outlet at the Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in the Australian state, which was initially thought to have been “incorrectly” installed and certified by BOC in July 2015, leaving one new-born dead and another in a critical condition.
However, during a recent inspection carried out by Police, hospital staff and BOC, it was found that both the medical O2 and medical N2O pipelines were incorrectly labelled prior to BOC’s work being undertaken at the hospital in July 2015, according to a statement from the company.
BOC also claimed that it did not carry out the original installation of the pipes.
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