Open Case File · DAILY-ANTIVENOM
Redistribution
On a late-summer night when the heat lingered past dark, Trevor Mullane, coordinator at the Barralong Wildlife Rescue Station, was bitten by a brown snake during a residential yard capture callout. Emergency treatment and transport followed protocol, and the hospital was twenty-six minutes away. But the Barralong Regional Hospital refrigerator held no brown snake antivenom—the injectable serum in small glass vials that neutralizes the venom. Not a single vial remained of what should have been this hospital's allocation. The antivenom flown in from the capital reached his arm four hours and twenty minutes after the bite, and by then his blood had long since lost the ability to clot. He died the next morning from intracranial hemorrhage. Five people had access to that refrigerator. Find out whose hand packed the last three vials into a box six days prior that afternoon.
Scene
operational regional hub hospital (emergency department & pharmacy) and wildlife rescue station · late summer heatwave
5 suspects
Erin MercerBarralong Regional Hospital Pharmacy inventory managerMid-thirties. When asked a question, checks numbers first then answers. Speech is brief and voice low, and pace does not change even when the other party raises their voice. Prefers to speak from records rather than memory, and does not answer unverified matters.
Doug VilneyBarralong Wildlife Rescue Station operations managerMid-fifties. Loud voice and fast speech, and when station operations come up immediately brings up budget and permits. When his responsibility is mentioned voice gets louder, and when the other party backs down immediately switches to a good-natured laugh.
Nathan FroleyRescue station volunteer responderLate twenties. Fast speech and frequent hand movements, and when asked about times and sequences answers with surprising precision. When that night comes up sentences shorten and gaze keeps going to the door.
Rachel DoonanBarralong Regional Hospital emergency department night supervisor nurseLate forties. Says only necessary words, sentences brief. When asked about treatment sequence counts off on fingers while answering, and when questions about her timeline come up answers lag one beat.
Ian RenshawPinehurst State Hospital pharmaceutical coordinatorEarly fifties. Answers questions about systems and authority definitively and becomes vague about his own hospital's circumstances. When explaining traces shapes in the air with hands as if drawing tables, and when questions come his way looks at his watch.
Exhibits
Refrigerated medication inventory register
The inventory register hanging inside the pharmacy refrigerator door. The last entry in the brown snake antivenom column is from six days ago, with blank lines following. A handwritten note is tucked into the bottom of the page.
Medication transfer slip and insulated box receipt
A transfer slip dated six days ago. Item: brown snake antivenom, quantity: three vials, destination: Pinehurst State Hospital. The sender field reads only Barralong Regional Hospital Pharmacy.
This month's automated distribution schedule calculation details
This month's distribution schedule sent down by the contracted supply system. Under antivenom items, Barralong Regional Hospital appears at the bottom of the list.
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