Death while waiting

13th December 2010

The lady died after waiting six days for surgery

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A 56-year-old woman has died in hospital after six days of waiting for surgery for her broken leg.

The as-yet unnamed woman, a patient at Warsaw’s Dzieciatka Jezus hospital, was told she could not be operated on due to the facility not having the appropriate orthopaedic screws.

According to daily Fakt, the patient was not given anticoagulants - a drug to prevent the clotting of blood - for three days and only received one single dosage after she personally requested it.

The death is now under full investigation. “We want an explanation as to how the accident occurred and whether the patient was the victim of neglect,” said Piotr Olechno, a spokesman for Poland’s Ministry of ...

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