Intensive care nurse ‘may have been asleep when boy died’

An intensive care nurse may been asleep when she failed to monitor a boy who died after a routine operation, a court heard. James Dwerryhouse suffered severe brain damage at the Portland Hospital when a blood saturation monitor was shut down for nearly three hours without a doctor’s permission on 26 August 2016. Anuradha Bhupathiraju, 64, is now accused of manslaughter by gross negligence. ‘Whether she had taken the opportunity to have a sleep, or she had gone off to…