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Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner 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 …
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.
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 Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding a locum GP in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for undertaking an inadequate assessment of a man in her care. The man, …
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding a locum GP in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for undertaking an inadequate assessment of a man in her care.
The man, in his sixties, had a history of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. He saw a locum GP because he’d been having indigestion and a lack of appetite for several months, had a fever and was exhausted.