Saturday, July 14, 2012

So thirsty he called police: Coroner slams hospital staff who refused dying patient's desperate pleas for water...

A coroner launched a scathing attack on hospital staff today ruling that a patient who became so dehydrated that he rang 999 to beg for a drink of water died of neglect.

Kane Gorny, 22, called police in desperation after being denied lifesaving fluids.

But an inquest heard that staff at St George’s hospital in Tooting, South London, simply turned them away and sedated him.

Kane then died of thirst and, after a five-day inquest, deputy coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe said he had been “undoubtedly let down by incompetence of staff, poor communication, a lack of leadership both medical and nursing, a culture of assumption, assuming others will do what you haven’t done or haven’t made explicitly clear needs to be done.”

Delivering a verdict that he died of neglect at the hands of medical staff, Dr Radcliffe told London’s Westminster coroner’s court that Kane’s death was caused by “a collective failure by a number of individuals, both medical and nursing.” Full story...

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