Patient, 21, who died after phoning 999 from hospital bed was given 'wrong treatment' by NHS staff
Updated: 6 Apr 2021, 21:18 A 21-year-old who dialled 999 from his temporary bed in a hospital corridor died after staff failed to give him a blood transfusion because they did not understand his sickle cell disease, a coroner has said. Evan Nathan Smith had gone to North Middlesex Hospital in north London, following a procedure to remove a gallbladder after which he developed sepsis and died on April 25 2019. 2 2 Sickle cell disease, which causes acute pain as blood vessels to certain parts of the body become blockedCredit: SWNS Doctors say the football stats analyst, who who was in hospital ...