WOODSTOCK, ON—Systemic failures in long-term care allowed Canada’s “first known health-care serial killer” to murder eight elderly patients without raising suspicion, a public inquiry said Wednesday, calling for fundamental changes to prevent such tragedies in the future.
In a report capping a two-year probe of nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s case, the inquiry said those failures stem in part from a lack of awareness on the risk of staff members deliberately hurting patients.
