2023-05-31 13:25:26
An investigation has determined that the death of Sally Lewis, a 55-year-old British woman who lost her life after suffering from long-term constipation, was due to medical negligence. Specifically, the forensic experts who worked on the case concluded that this patient no medication was provided key for nine months.
A key medicine was missing for nine months
This is reported by the British newspaper BBC, which explains that Lewis suffered from learning disabilities and that the medical staff who treated her knew of her long-term constipation problems, for which, in fact, up to three different kinds of laxatives were prescribed. However, she was not kept proper records and she was not provided with one of the medications prescribed during nine months. The absence of this treatment ended up causing complications that ultimately proved fatal.
More specifically, Lewis suffered a fecal impaction in the large intestine that led to obstruction, sepsis (generalized infection) and finally death on October 27, 2017.
In response to this investigation, the CEO of Lewis’s healthcare provider, Dimensions UK, has publicly apologized and acknowledged that lThe care provided was not enough. Similarly, he has stated that since the event the firm has made internal and external improvements to “mitigate the risk that this happens to anyone again.”
Lewis’s family, who claim his death was “totally preventable” recalled that the patient “loved music and dance” and stressed that “she had strong relationships with her family, despite being mostly non-verbal”.
Lewis suffered from learning disabilities as a result of a jaundiced episode that he suffered as a baby. As a consequence, he lived his entire adult life in a specialist facility.
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