Mum given overdose of paracetamol while being in treated for sickness and pneumonia - she died two weeks later
20.10.2022 - 10:35
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum given an overdose of paracetamol while being treated for sickness and pneumonia died two weeks later.
Laura Higginson, from Widnes, Cheshire, was admitted to hospital in April 2017 while weighing only five-and-a-half stone. Two weeks later, the 30-year-old died from multiple organ failure, sepsis, and Gitelman's syndrome.
Despite this, the Crown Prosecution Service found that the overdose did not contribute to her death. However, her husband, Antony Higginson, claims that he wasn't made aware of the fact she received too much paracetamol in the hospital prior to her death, Cheshire Live reports
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While Antony, 47, had hoped that the CPS would charge staff at hospital for providing a wrong dosage, nothing was brought against them with claims that the overdose did not contribute to her death. Now, Anthony says his family are stuck on a "merry-go-round of blame" five years after her death.
"We feel that we have been gaslighted. Justice is not fair, it’s unaffordable, unachievable, unaccountable and corrupt," Antony said.
"What we have is a merry-go-round of blame and in the middle is us, the bereaved. I’m missing my wife, Laura’s parents are missing their daughter, and my children are missing their mum all because these organisations are pointing the finger at each other.
"They rendered her life insignificant when she mattered the world to me, her mum and dad, and her children. We are broken, despairing – we are angry beyond compare."
Laura died in hospital on April 19, 2017, after she said she received a high dose of paracetamol meant for a heavier woman. Previously, the hospital had administered the wrong dose but denied that it had caused