Young woman may have been saved by earlier diagnosis by South Canterbury DHB: HDC Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 3:22PM
Several doctors at South Canterbury DHB were found to have contributed to the failures of care provided to a young woman who went to the ED in immense pain. ( Photo / 123rf )
Young woman may have been saved by earlier diagnosis by South Canterbury DHB: HDC Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 3:22PM
South Canterbury DHB has been criticised for failing to fully investigate a young woman s worsening symptoms which left her crying and screaming out in pain until it was deemed too late to do anything and she died just days later.
Monday, 26 July 2021, 2:01 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding South Canterbury District Health
Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a number of
failures in its care of a woman in 2019.
The woman,
aged in her twenties, presented to the Emergency Department
(ED) three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and
an increasing CRP level - a marker of infection.
On
her third visit to ED, a CT scan found that her small bowel
lacked blood supply and was significantly compromised. Her
condition was deemed non-survivable and, sadly, she later
Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a …
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain tumour.
The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service. Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain, vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological symptoms including slurred speech.
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:15 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health
Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its
care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain
tumour.
The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these
events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service.
Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple
occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain,
vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological
symptoms including slurred speech.
The fourth time she
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:14 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding a surgeon in breach of the Code of
Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the
Code) for failures in her care of a woman who was later
diagnosed with breast cancer.
The woman, in her
forties at the time of these events, had been diagnosed and
treated for breast cancer in 2013.
In 2018, she was
found to have a breast lump. The breast and general surgeon
performed a biopsy on the lump but failed to order a
mammogram or an ultrasound. The surgeon formed the opinion
that the breast lump was benign and discharged the