cancer, a board heard. The mum-of-two young girls then tested positive for an infection she contracted while at hospital before she was discharged.
But this was not shared with her, her GP or the oncology department giving her a course of end of life chemotherapy, according to Wales Online.
The patient, named Annabel, died on January 19 2020.At a Swansea heath board meeting, her husband told his wife's story.She was due to undergo a major operation for stomach cancer when the intravenous line incident occurred."She had the trauma of seeing an agency nurse putting the line in her mouth and then dropping it on the floor and than applying it back," he said.Not long after, redness appeared in the area in question and the line, which delivered.
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