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Te Whatu Ora Waikato failed to pass on critical information about a patient’s X-ray results, who later died of cancer, the Deputy Health and Disability Com
The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised the standard of care Te Whatu Ora Waikato provided to a woman who died of cancer.
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (now Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui) breached Right 4(1) of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights
The breach relates to its failure to provide services of an appropriate standard to a man who died after suffering a severe hypoxic brain injury sustained from an incorrect intubation.
A man died after he suffered a brain injury caused by a botched intubation procedure in which a doctor inserted a breathing tube into his esophagus instead...