A former Fiji resident who is a nurse is Sydney is behind bars after he allegedly poisoned his wife with a powerful sedative allegedly stolen from a hospital.
7NEWS is reporting that 45 year old Ugendra Singh allegedly stole 15 vials of Propofol from the intensive care ward at Liverpool Hospital and used it to drug his wife Joytika Lata who is also a former Fiji resident.
It is alleged Singh gave Lata, who is also a nurse, the drug, claiming it was a saline drip, when she became dehydrated on Tuesday morning.
Lata told 7NEWS that she was dehydrated and wanted to go to the hospital however her husband told her not to because of the COVID-19 situation.
Lata woke up eight hours after being the drip, realised something was wrong and called emergency services.
She says was allegedly drugged by her husband and it could have taken her life.
Lata was treated by paramedics at her home in Hebersham before being taken to Blacktown Hospital.
She was released on Wednesday morning.
Singh was charged with use poison so as to endanger life, larceny, possess/attempt to, prescribed restricted substance, and common assault.
[Source: 7NEWS]
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