Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Health & Medicine

HA to raise staff alertness after fatal feeding error

Hospital Authority chief executive Libby Lee said on Thursday that new measures will be introduced to raise medical staff alertness, after a patient died at the Prince of Wales Hospital last week having choked on a regular meal instead of his prescribed pureed diet. The patient, who had a history of dementia and stroke, was admitted to the hospital on September 16 due to a deteriorating mental…

We haven't written up this one. RTHK News has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at news.rthk.hk →

More in Health & Medicine

More from Thursday 24 September →