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Sunday, 26 September 2004 11:14
The Sunday Telegraph · www.telegraph.co.uk
PATIENT'S LIVER 'SATURATED' WITH IRON AFTER HOSPITAL CONFUSION OVER
DOSAGE
A critic of declining standards in the National Health Service died
after being given a large overdose of iron by a hospital doctor who did
not read the instructions on the drug's label properly.
Carys Pugh, 63, a former president of a patients' association in Wales,
was taken to casualty at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital after the blunder
turned her skin brown and "saturated" her liver with iron.
While she fought for survival in hospital for seven weeks, Mrs Pugh
suffered a heart attack and contracted deep vein thrombosis in both
legs, a chest infection and then E.coli. Finally, she suffered a second
heart attack that killed her.
Who loves ya.
Tom
The Sunday Telegraph · www.telegraph.co.uk
PATIENT'S LIVER 'SATURATED' WITH IRON AFTER HOSPITAL CONFUSION OVER
DOSAGE
A critic of declining standards in the National Health Service died
after being given a large overdose of iron by a hospital doctor who did
not read the instructions on the drug's label properly.
Carys Pugh, 63, a former president of a patients' association in Wales,
was taken to casualty at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital after the blunder
turned her skin brown and "saturated" her liver with iron.
While she fought for survival in hospital for seven weeks, Mrs Pugh
suffered a heart attack and contracted deep vein thrombosis in both
legs, a chest infection and then E.coli. Finally, she suffered a second
heart attack that killed her.
Who loves ya.
Tom