Newborn baby dies as hospital mix up sees him given laughing gas instead of oxygen
dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A newborn baby boy tragically died after a deadly gas blunder at a hospital, an inquest was told.John Ghanem was pumped with nitrous oxide – commonly known as laughing gas – instead of oxygen because of an installation error that went undetected for more than a year.He had only been born for an hour when he died at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney, Australia, in July 2016, Kidspot reports.The "shocking chain of events" was only uncovered after a medic recalled an article he had read about a similar mix-up in India, Lidcombe Coroners Court heard yesterday, Monday.Counsel assisting the coroner Donna Ward told the court testing of a new gas panel n July 2015 was not done “adequately or.
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