Medical Council says Dr Chu Kin-wah failed to properly investigate after patient’s complaints or adequately check possible presence of a foreign object.
According to New Zealand’s health and disability commissioner, the patient had an Alexis wound retractor a device used to hold a wound open lodged in her abdomen.
According to New Zealand’s health and disability commissioner, the patient had an Alexis wound retractor a device used to hold a wound open lodged in her abdomen.
A New South Wales Coroner has recommended that the Health Care Complaints Commissioner investigate the care and treatment a doctor provided to an Oaklands man who died at Albury Base Hospital in 2019.
a hospital trust has apologised to a woman for failing to tell her for seven years that a surgeon had left her with a life threatening injury. louise dempster was told that she suffered a massive haemorrhage after undergoing a caesarean section because of the size of her baby. in fact it was caused by surgical error. that only came to light more recently when a document was uncovered during an inquiry into poor maternity care at east kent hospitals trust an inquiry that began after a series of reports by our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. here s his latest. all i remember is my mum screaming for help and her stroking my hair and telling me she loved me. and i knew that something was wrong if my mum was panicked. louise dempster owes her life to her mother linda. a registered nurse, she was the one who spotted her daughter s health deteriorating in the hours after she d given birth to her son by caesa rean section. i was sitting talking to her and ijust saw her d